frappant du pied, ' stamping

330. terrible et grande. N.B, the two adjectives preceding the noun : it is unusual, and consequently emphatic.

332. mes cheveux me firent mal, 'my hair bristled painfully.' Lit •hurtme.'

335. La bombe . . . tout à coup, ' The boit fell suddenly.' Bombe^ 'ashell* enters into inany idioms in French. Cf. 'gare la bombe ! '= * mind your heads ! *

337. des comédies . . . pleurer, 'comédies to make you ail weep.*