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It is raining fast, and so the streets are empty.

The two dapple-grey horses had just given another good pull at it.

Î was far from suspecting that you were so near.

À woman was sheltering as well as she could a little boy with a sickly look.

“Well, you are cool!” he answered, ‘but come all the same. ”

. When shall we set the thing going ?

+ Though dressed just alike, the two sisters of charity did not

much resemble each other.

« Is that all the money you have got about you ? . All these good people are very ignorant.

. I cannot understand why you have changed your mind.

. Has not your eldest daughter been married for a year ?

+ My husband takes in work; he is a bookbinder.

+ You would be pitied more if you did not complain so much. + Îtis no longer a question of speaking but of acting.

+ How funny you look when you pout !

. If you are not rich, there is no shame in confessing it.

+ The train was more than half an hour late.

+ Does not your bedroom look out on to the park ?

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Sentences on Syntax and Idioms 151

We were coming back on foot, walking side by side without Saying anything,

Those few hours I shall never forget.

It seemed as if there was no longer any sun.

Whilst Pretending not to listen, he had heard all I had said,

You won't mind your cod-liver oil, will you ?

The dying man moved his lips as if to speak.

Let us make haste, if we want to arrive before it is dark.

It was a resolution the importance of which I fully unders: 04

Happy the king whose subjects respect him so!

How many times she had uttered this name in an wii, to herself alone !

+ “What do you not like in him ?” he asked, purpi il

anger.

+ How sad she felt, whilst following the flight of the clou, va

her eyes !

We had been six weeks in Normandy when that event touk Place.

However dangerous our situation may be, it is not desperate, Thinking she was asleep, I touched her arm slightly. À consecrated medal was hanging round the neck of the little É patient. | The good sister had got out of the bus to escape the woman’s ( thanks.

The former corporal, instead of slipping out an oath, merely smiled out of regard for the fair sex.