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WORDS

noisily

the ray

to sparkle

a cheap eatinghouse

to be tired out, knocked up

the knot

the mushroom

the harvest

a flail

the lilac

to borrow from. .

the saving

to cheat

to search

the clothes, togs

the theft

the ragamufñfin

the disorder

the ear

the anguish

a rag

the policeman

the handcuffs, manacles

the locksmith

moreover

the napkin

the pipe

the rack

the dressinggown

the veil

Copper (swbs/)

the eyelid

to half-open

bald

Sugar-plums

infusion, decoction

the beard

Words and Phrases 145

PHRASES to burst out laughing the cudgel of the convict-keeper the heavy grip of the warder to climb ropes to bend once's back to go to mass

their resources were very limited they had had to admit him to manage to save up

to pretend to be ignorant

to change the subject

at the time of his arriva]

[going to enter

the room into which he was

Tam sure that my trunk has been opened [law-courts

to drag some one before the à

so much the worse à

his Sunday waistcoat DE

With his sanctimonious air

89 and fetch the police [voice

tosaysg. in a lowand imploring

I know all about it

his younger brother

to render some one a service

to be sentenced to prison for life as an old offender [year

to retire on an income of £600a

You are doing a stupid thing

to know some one by sight

that does not Concern me

gentle as à lamb

to prevent some one doing sg.

to fret his toothless mouth to half expect à request

to make a face

between the Morning and after.

noon Service

to drink in little sips

to give proof of sg.

nana mnnnenan mn means - mn

Page worps ugly to sketch, outline 57 to cough the bellows a brat, baby

58 the drop croup (med) the sigh

59 the godson to be selfish the kidney

to simmer (cook)

60 the office the War Office the right hand the left arm

61 the button to brush the buttonhole

62 the front (of à shop) an old-clothes dealer dirty 63 a scar from behinca the corpse

64 the nickname the steel a four-wheeler

65 exacting the service a spot of rust

66 a speech to behave well to totter 67 daybreak to rouse some one the grape-shot

WORDS unusual the anvil

unkempt

a dressingjacket

the apprentice

the oyster

to ring (a #e//)

to uncork

a dishwarmer

to spoil

to bend, stoop

the wonder, marvel

cheap

his salary

A parcel the brain to be quite sure

the shop-window

rusty

to gnaw, corrode

to rot

a ghost

a riddle

quite frankly

to crack the fray, scuffle the conduct

the gaiter

to get drunk

to mate (ckess), bring down

luckily

to notice sg.

for good

the ear (of corn)

the elhow

to fire

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