What is special about this sentence?

Show this bold Prussian that praises slaughter, slaughter brings rout.

Which same three letters can be added to the beginning of each of the following words to make 5 new words?:

SPORT
SWORD
SAGE
SABLE
TIME

In this teaser there are three words in a sentence that are all connected in some way by a fourth word. The connected words are in capitals, so all you have to do is think of the fourth word that connects them all. For example:
The school MASTER realized that the young BOY had a great deal of hidden TALENT.

The answer would be SCOUT as in Scout Master, Boy Scout and Talent Scout.

Now try and guess the connecting word in the following ...

What is this well known phrase?

11x12=144

Madadia is split, like other countries, into cities, towns and villages. Some are large and some are small. Postman Patel delivers the mail in the village of "Lardville".

Now Lardville is so small there is only one street with only ten houses, numbered from 1 to 10.

In a certain week, Patel did not deliver any mail at two houses in the village; at the other houses he delivered mail three times each. Each working day he delivered mail at ...

This teaser features HOMONYMS, or words that are spelt different, but sound alike. There are three blank spaces in each sentence below, and the answers are all homonyms.

See if you can solve the following homonym teasers.

The old ____ began to ____ us with tales of how he used to hunt wild ____.

The Church counsel tried to ban, or in a sense, ______ the use of the ______ as it kept setting off the smoke ______.

The germs probably ____ down...