hardi! The adjective is used for the adverb hardiment

12. on regardait la nuit venir. After verbs of «seeing* and ' hearing,' French requires either an infinitive or a relative clause ; English requires a présent participle.

14. commencer leur chanson. Render by ' strike up their tune." Chanson is by no means confined to the meaning of ' words set to musio.' Thus Chansons! * nonsense l ' To croak is coasser; croaking is coassement.

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4. un grand et gros homme. Grand is placed before the noun, in the sensé of * tall,' when another adjective expressing a physical characteristic is joined to the noun. Thus, un grand homme maigre. But un grand homme9 *a great man,' un homme grandt * a tall man,'

19. les maîtrises. Les maîtrises are the 'Guilds' or *Trade Corporations.' The privilège to work as a master workman trading on his own account oould only be acquired, by purchase, from the Guild, by those who had been formally apprenticed and had served their time.