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PHRASES to set up house. to fall in love with some one keeping to put by some money the birth it was Catherine's saint's day the jewel to wish some one many happy to be grievcd returns of the day

to have ones fill of sg.

to irritate, annoy I should be ashamed to repeat some one it

grief, worry to be very near doing sg.

to lose sight of some one

a shake of the to return with empty hands

hand to come to some one's aid to draw lots to earn fairly good wages to climb to spend a sleepless night the scaffold to be in the act of doing sg.

to crumple, to have à forfeit to pay

ruffle to giggle, grin so much the worse for them bloodshot, it struck eleven

husky to be killed on the spot

a box with toys puddles of water the downpour

a dapple-grey horse to give a good pull (of à horse) without suspecting anything

to drip to make one's way through the a nun crowd [can to be standing to shelter Some one as best one to Start off again (of a carriage) the business, large nut-brown eyes job a hand with slender fingers

the rough work the cheek-bone the younger, the youngest the bookbinder

to Start a conversation with some one

the delicate-looking littlefellow

she has been married for these twelve months

the eve to go to the country a woollen to complain of à choking blanket sensation

outside (ad) there is no shame in owning it

to pay the cab-fare

the shawl to return walking side by to be better (i» side

health) it was fine weather to sob

I was allowed to see him on Sundays and Thursdays

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the veil

the eyelashes velvet (s465£) bold

a newspaper

the quarrel

a bully

22 asleep

to wake up

at first

the campaign

the wound

a branch line (railway)

the cart

the ground-floor

an inn

the cartridgepouch

the nape of the neck

the thigh

to low

the banisters

Straw-bottomed chairs

10 pass (of time)

the saucer

the hat-peg

the bell (1/4 à hammer) [bar the lady at the Poppy- coloured Somewhere an auctioneer to despise jeering

on Mondays

the market-day

the market.

gardener

a goose

a rod, switch

the beggar

the househoïd

WORDS to have à dream the archbishop Hungarian heart-rending to watch, look

after

thin

the mud

a bullet

the native

a sleigh-bel] the rampart

an aCquaintance the threshold the roll-call

the sharpshooter

his native town

the travellingbag

a trophy

the grocer

to shave one's self

the angle, corner

the aproi,

the stool

billiard balls to complain about . , Punctual eye-glasses a collection (Church) the group

the farmer the whip drunk

to notice that .

to curse, fume against

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PHRASES to think of the past it was in Spring his short cropped hair by a mere chance Strewn with large leaves to dress wounds

Î touched his arm gently

to have a mind to do sg.

out of regard for the fair sex

it is of little or no consequence

to put some one on the retired list

to fish with à line

to bury one's self in silence

the streets were Paved with cobble stones

very many times

at the point of the bayonet

the top of the coach

to be on friendly terms with some one

to climb up the stairs a room with à brick floor to unpack one's trunk

to feel at ease

10 utter a deep sigh of relief

to take à turn round the town

to walk round the room

the arrival of this new comer

to be delighted to meet some one

à Man with bushy whiskers

to go out to get seme cigars

theabove-mentioned veterinary

to give some one a piece of one's mind

as early as daybreak

an otter-skin cap

it was an unlucky day

+ A confirmed bachelor

clothed with ashort skirtin rags to be Preparing to do sg.

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32 to wake some one up in future the service

33 a hubbub the curtain the hearth to be strewn

with.,

34 to be tempted a pitchfork the dung-heap the cheek

35 the gratitude the zeal the floor

36 to be standing up the old age to skip about 38 to rub a laundress the customer 39 a mountebank my father-inlaw the wash-house, laundry 140 a stall (for sale of goods) the cell (prison) to paper (a room) 41 a humpback a cockchafer a fishpond 42 children's toys the plunge the cesspool, sewer

43 the loft the shipwreck sunburnt sailors’ expres-

sions

WORDS PHRASES a kick to walk on tiptoe to blush is she a relative of yours (2#4

lame, limping sing)?

to go back into the house

to throw off such a crowd of country folk one'sweariness socks full of holes

an officer's ser- tolook after some one's clothes

vant a turncoat, Tam in need of a servant deserter to undertake to keep some one

henceforward there is no mistake about it

the spider to furbish up the furniture the table-cloth to promise io think about it the andiron to put one's hand on the doorhandle

to hoard up he could not bear it any longer to wean a comfortable and well -fura haberdasher's nished room

shop to fill one's pipe [months fhe custom [ have been here these six

a Waiter in a café to earn money

early to go to bed early

to be in con- everything is going wrong sumption to take a dislike to some one

clumsy everybody used to cuff me

the sewers

a plank, shelf à pair of old shoes

the foil (/en- the eldest of them cing) the distant line of hills his Christian name the net a piece of thread [in turn a limekiln to arrest and release some one the slipper to have one's hair curled a shady busi to have one's self tattooed ness after six weeks at the outside a heap of rub- to be sentenced to five years’ bish hard labour the mange (of dog) the pulpit, to ramble through the streets master's desk it was very hot (of fhe weather) lead ink-pots a table of weightsand measures

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beardless

palish, wan

a jest

the convictprison

the back

the ladder

46 a lodging-house,

furnished lodgings a green arbour a tea-garden the gesture allthe more the mystery

the landing (staircase)

the disturbance

the tail

to get angry

the dread, fright

the penury

the crime

the neck

the mouth

the substitute

a tool

to whine

to look as if. .

the ironmonger

the hem

the bachelor

a drunkard

the (/a54) will

a regular customer (in a café)

to replace, take the place of

to receive, wel.

come

the christening

to read over, revise

9 pour out, spi

arched, crooked

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