T avais les fièvres. — I had the ague

Il me remontait le cotwr. — He raised my spirits.

240. JiPavait mis de moitié dans son commerce, — ^Had madc me a partner in his business.

VOCABULARY

Words so nearly alike in form in French and English that the reader will identify them at sightare not given hère unless différent in meaning. For example, such words as troubler, to trouble: ooonper, to occupy; annuel, annual; avidité, avidity; plaintif, plaintive; ordinaire, ordinary; sérieux, serious; période, period; adverbs in -ment and the like, are omitted.

&, in, to, at, with, for; pleurer à chaudes larmes^ to weep bitterly; à leur aise, quite comfortably; bâton à pointe de fer ^ stick with an iron point; halle aux blés, grainmarket.

à propos, f//., appropriateness, seasonableness.

abaisser, to lower, debase.

abattre, to beat down, cast down.

abeille, /. , bee.

abolir, to abolish.

abonner, s', to subscribe.

abord m,, approach; d'abord, in the first place, first.

aboutir, to corne to; tout cela n*avait abouti qu à . . . , the end and upshot of ail that had been simply this . . .

aboyer, to bark.

abreuver, to water, give drink.

abreuvoir, m,, horse-pond.

abriter, to shelter.

abrutir, to brutalize.

abrutissement, m,, brutalization.

absolu, e. absolu te.

acoabler, to overwhelm, to crush.

acoélérer, to quicken; pas accé-

léré^ quick step.

acoompagner, to accompany.

aoeomplir, to perform, fulfil.

accomplissement, m,, fulfilment.

accord, iw., agreement; cT accord,

agreed.

accorder, to grant.

accouder, s', to lean on one's

elbow.

accourir, rus, couru, to run up.

accrocher, to hook on; s', to

hook on, cling to.

accroupi, e, crouching.

acculé, at bay.

acharné, e, excited, enraged.

acheminer, s', to proceed, walk.

acheter, to buy, purchase.^ acheteur, m,, purchaser.

achever, to finish; to ^ut an

end to.

acier, m,, steel.