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PAGE 35.-1. accordingly. 2. glanced his eyes over. 3. with impunity, i.e. without having acquired the vanity of one. 4. Bootian, in allusion to the natives of Boeotia in Greece, who were considered rude and illiterate. 5. fate, fortune.' 6. to provide you one. 7. crooked (bandy-legs). 8. in a way. 9. dispose them to serious inward reflection. 10. highly polished. 11. begins to feel. 12. I will rely upon. 13. temper, 'nature,' 'stamp.' 14. deteriorate. 15. your interest is concerned.

PAGE 37.-1. violent. 2. there remained no trace of it. 3. a severe attack. 4. what I should resolve on doing. 5. deviated, wandered. 6. a musty college professor. 7. a common-place, long-winded discourse. 8. who remarked it. 9. paid, hired. 10. which savours of the apoplexy. 11. to be beforehand with (you). 12. obliterated, 'left out of.' 13. in question. 14. a delicate thing. 15. enamoured. 16. could be offended. 17. make him swallow the pill. 18. to commence. 19. Aristarchus. 20. speak at once. 21. to take ill. 22. far from it. 23. I am by no means displeased. 24. terribly imposed upon by. 25. narrow, 'stupid.' 26. disconcerted. 27. to repair matters. 28. the means of appeasing. 29. distinguish the true from the false.

PAGE 41.-1. intonations.

PAGE 43.-1. bonhomie, ease, good nature. 2. 'false intonation,' caused by the running of the voice into one sentence without completing the preceding.

PAGE 52.-1. furrows become level (smooth). 2. in vain penetrates. 3. dismayed. 4. chilled. 5. pilots. 6. dispenser, to excuse, discharge, absolve; also, to bestow, 'distribute;' se dispenser, to dispense with. 7. vacuity, space. 8. terrified, dismayed.

PAGE 54.-1. foggy. 2. peaks. 3. trade-wind.

2.

PAGE 56.-1. has no longer any feeling but for himself. he rushes. 3. a state of dejection. 4. grinding. 5. rattle-snakes. 6. lined, covered over. 7. chilled, 'horror-struck.' 8. trembling. 9. shuddering. 10. stoops. 11. leaning, resting. 12. & 13. as 16. guaiacum, a medicinal wood, called also lignum vitæ. 17. shattered. 18. broken. 19. flowed away.

pale and lifeless. 14. to bristle up. 15. rooted up.

PAGE 58.-1. uncultivated. 2. outward. 3. cuts off. 4. thistle. 5. bramble, brier. 6. thickly set, bristling. 7. falling into decay by age. 8. lichen. 9. agaric. 10. for want of being. 11. miry. 12. unapproachable. 13. marshes, morasses. 14. unclean, foul. 15. heaths. 16. savannahs. 17. grass-plot. 18. which appear less connected with the soil than with each other. 19. coarse flock. 20. rebrousser chemin, to go or turn back. 21. the waterlily. 22. his strength. 23. 'discovered,' with reference to its

extent, boundaries, &c.

PAGE 62.-1. transparent. 2. soft. 3. birch-trees. 4.'owlet,' brown or grey owl.

PAGE 64.-1. top, brow. 2. lively orange red.

4. crimson red.

3. print.

PAGE 66.-1. shrouds. 2. yards. 3. water-spout. 4. goudron, tar, 'tarred.' 5. sing. 6. hoarse. 7. snares, dangers.

PAGE 67.-1. trembling. 2. cast down. 3. struggle.

PAGE 69.-1. expand. 2. to gush, spring. 3. incandescent (of a white heat).

PAGE 70.-1. gaping mouth. 2. hollowed, scooped. 3. sheet. 4. to the east. 5. shaken. 6. spurts up, gushes. 7. hewn.

8. drawn in. 9. elks.

PAGE 71.-1. roof. 2. brim, curb-stone. 3. trough.

PAGE 72.-1. want of caution. 2. entwined devices. 3. was created. 4. were indulging in. 5. crushed. 6. was swallowed up. 7. of a number of. 8. contending (to rescue) their daughters. 9. when they searched the ruins. 10. clasped in her

arms.

3. are

PAGE 73.-1. ground, distance. 2. gramineæ, grasses. united. 4. dishevelled, disordered. 5. fallow (pale red or yellow). 6. exhibit. 7. rice-fields. 8. jackal. 9. with a ram's head, 'horned.' 10. ibis. 11. jerboa. 12. 'porphyry,' from the Greek Togoúga (porphura), purple, marble of a particular kind. 13. saxatile. 14. girdle.

PAGE 76.-1. a religious recollection or meditation. 2. crumbled. 3. fallow (deer, &c.); see the note, page 78.

PAGE 79.-1. buried. 2. amphora, pitcher. 3. kneaded. 4. cross way. 5. by the light.

[blocks in formation]

PAGE 82.-1. déferler, to unfurl.

2. engulfed. 3. mainmast. 4. fore-mast. 5. gouverner un vaisseau, to steer a ship; le vaisseau ne gouverne pas, there is no steerage-way. 6. voguait en travers de la lame, drifted in the hollow or trough of the sea. 7. waves. 8. quarter-deck. 9. shrouds of the mizen-mast. 10. top-mast or top-sail. 11. main-yards were immersed.

12.

drenched. 13. to capsize, overset. 14. top. 15. straightened. 16. overturned. 17. with all one's might. 18. hoarse, rough.

13. worked, dug at. 14. 16. leisure. 17. know

PAGE 83.-1. while I was employed. 2. I felt a desire. 3. spotted. 4. striped. 5. brown, 'dark.' 6. sparkling. 7. coats. S. nacre, mother-of-pearl. 9. netting. 10. paperkites. 11. came upon. 12. beetles. parenchyma. 15. an earthen vessel. ledge. 18. within its focus. 19. at a glance. 20. lens. 21. which magnified but little. 22. glands. 23. creusés en, scooped in the shape of. 24. anthers. 25. rafters. 26. corollas. 27. nectaries. 28. gold or silver-smith's ware. 29. amphoræ. 30. instead of finding their own level. 31. thoroughly. 32. plunge.

PAGE 87.-1. magnifying glass, or lens. 2. sparkling netting. 3. decks. 4. flesh-worm, a small insect. 5. conceals from. 6. retina. 7. cornea. 8. estimate.

PAGE 89.-1. strewed. 2. bare, open. 3. destitute. 4. only returns. 5. fill up.

PAGE 90.-1. cannot spring up. 2. which the other wanted.. 3. thick mud. 4. thickets. 5. mangrove or manglier, a large tree of the southern regions; its branches descend to the ground and take root in it. 6. increase, multiply. 7. sinks. 8. refuse. 9. knead. 10. mire. 11. living mass. 12. rude, shapeless.

13. bordering on.

PAGE 92.-1. he is not discouraged. 2. suffers. 3. boorish, rude, 'churlish.' 4. eager. 5. attentive. 6. if they stop ever so little. 7. has better provided them. 8. leaps. 9. abruptly. 10. distinguishes. 11. can stand the test.

PAGE 96.-1. fury. 2. they are put to sledges. 3. how to make their way through. 4. they only glance along. 5. enfoncer, to sink. 6. which are pickled. 7. benumbed.

PAGE 97.-1. braves. 2. submits. 3. to anticipate it. 4. submits to (everything).

PAGE 98.-1. to be secure. 2. folds. 3. twists, curls. 5. kneads. 6. softened, bruised. 7. crushed.

to grind. swallow it.

4.

8.

PAGE 100.-1. panting. 2. passing away in succession. 3. benumbed. 4. sink.

PAGE 101.-1. pebbly. 2. mélèze, larch-tree; rampant, creeping. 3. birch-trees. 4. northern. 5. wandering. 6. demesnial. 7. la rivière charrie des glaces, the river is filled with floating pieces of ice. 8. catkins, blossoms.' 9. cytisus; velu, hairy, thick, fibrous. 10. buds.

PAGE 104.-1. vent-holes, chasms.' 2. deep, hollow." 3. bewildered feeling, 'giddiness.'

PAGE 105.-1. nice, ́particular.’ 2. oriental. 3. countryboxes. 4. ruts. 5. champing bits. 6. the set (of horses), team. 7. attentions. 8. imagined, invented.

PAGE 107.-1. pebbles. 2. bottles, vials.

PAGE 108.-1. clashed with one another. 2. stuffed. 3. lackered vases or furniture (lacker is a kind of varnish of a brilliant golden colour). 4. good-humoured countenance or picture. 5. consecrated vessel. 6. antique sugar-plum or comfit-boxes: drageoir, from dragée, sugar-plum; féodaux, relating to feudal times. 7. apathetic. 8. tobacco-pouch. 9. sacred vase. 10. i. e. five francs; cent sous is a familiar expression.

PAGE 110.-1. chuckling. 2. conch, a marine shell used as a horn by the negroes. 3. gusts. 4. clinging. 5. shivering. 6. buttresses, props. 7. hurling. 8. ' wood-work' in the form of tiles. PAGE 116.-1. it is far from being the fact. 2. trois mille huit cents livres.

PAGE 119.-1. cut, shaped.

PAGE 122.-1. weakness, relaxation.

PAGE 126.-1. broom; genêt épineux, thorn, furze. 2. bassinet, crow-foot, butter-cup. 3. yellow wall-flowers. 4. borders. 5. primroses.

PAGE 127.-1. water-lily. 2. ignes fatui.

PAGE 131.-1. the coxcomb, fop, conceited man. 2. overbearing. 3. tutoie, thous; (says thou, thee,) speaks with an improper familiarity. 4. ogles. 5. jeers, ridicules. 6. whims, ridiculous manners. 7. boasting wit. 8. conceit. 9. heels (of shoes, boots). 10. runner, footboy.

11. creditors. 12. ill-bred.

PAGE 132.-1. the whimsical man. 2. as one can wish. 3. his spleen is spiteful. 4. he excites fear, pity. 5. wild. 6. diversion, 7. whetted, sharpened. 8. displeases. 9. spring. 10. unscrews. 11. demoniacs. 12. overturned, 'subverted.' 13. unreasonableness. 14. excite him. 15. disordered. 16. transports, 'passion.' 17. to turn away.

PAGE 134.-Le fat.-1. stammer out. 2. to propriety. 3. has heard an unpleasant truth. 4. of doing so. 5. unknown to himself. 6. if dinner is on table. 7. of impertinence, which is not overlooked in him.

SAME PAGE.-L'homme qui n'a pas de caractère.—1. caractère, character, temper, disposition, humour, nature, 'way of thinking,'' opinion.'

PAGE 135.-1. his own. 2. you can follow his track. 3. and sits not less at his ease. 4. faints away. 5. is before them.

6. puts himself under restraint.

PAGE 136.-Le gourmand.-1. first course of dishes. 2. sidedishes. 3. removed. 4. ragouts, extra-dishes. 5. produces a wish. 6. which does not take a thing changed (for another), which does not mistake.' 7. wherever.

SAME PAGE. Le riche et le pauvre.-1. fresh complexion. 2. high chest. 3. he makes the person who speaks to him re4. snores. 5. corrects. 6. which he

peat what he has said.
utters. 7. he does it badly; he imagines himself wearisome.
8. he does not command attention. 9. very attentive.
11. picks up by stealth. 12. crowded.

tread upon.
of humour with. 14. indifferently preoccupied.

10. to 13. out

PAGE 138.-Le pédant.-1. I do not understand. 2. I understand still less. 3. you perceive that I look well. 4. you do not suspect it. 5. galimatias, (see note, page 405,) gibberish. 6. confused sentences. 7. you address. 8. and whisper in your ear: Be not anxious of appearing clever.

SAME PAGE.-L'homme à prétentions.—1. he begins to speak, and interrupts. 2. he makes his way. 3. upon good authority.

PAGE 139.-1. these wars. 2. unravels in the same manner. 3. he can tell the number of stairs. 4. to make himself acquainted with the families. 5. that he had inherited this in. firmity.

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