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10. Mon Dieu! qu’il est laid, Goodness! how ugly he is! que, “how,” can never be immediately followed by the adjective it qualifies, as it is in English; the next word must be the subject: e. g. “ How beautiful life is!” Que da vie est belle!

Page 5.—1. yeux vert-de-mer, sea-green eyes ; vert is singular, because it is considered as a substantive; as though the expression were @’un vert de mer.

2. suranimal, superanimal; a word coined, of course, on the analogy of surhumain.

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