Crossword-Solution: WOLDS 5 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Already the sudden storm is passing, and its fierceness is abating; crowds are scattering homeward, and the sky is beginning to redden over the Yorkshire wolds.

Tis thought the peasants' hovels know her rite When now the wolds are bathed in silver light, And first the moonrise breaks the dusky grey, Then down the dells, with blown soft hair and bright, And through the dim wood Dian thrids her way.

Henry Howarth Bashford [1880- THE GYPSY GIRL Passing I saw her as she stood beside A lonely stream between two barren wolds; Her loose vest hung in rudely gathered folds On her swart bosom, which in maiden pride Pillowed a string of pearls; among her hair Twined the light bluebell and the stone-crop gay; And not far thence the small encampment lay, Curling its wreathed smoke into the air.

But they are newly wed, and—well, ‘tis nature! Better the bride loves to lie abed than to ride the cold wolds and seek the common deck.” Now, as Skallagrim grumbled, fear gathered in his heart, he knew not of what.

The sun was hardly up, men were scarce awake, the Wanderer said to himself; and he set a stout heart to the steep path leading up the hill, over the wolds, and across the ridge of rock that divides the two masses of the island.