juraient, lit. "swore"; "were in glaring contrast with

6. l'oatranoe, *'tlie exaggeration." This expressive word is seldom used now except in the adverbial phrases à outrance^ à toute outrance, Littré regrets that it should hâve lost the privilèges of a sabstantive, which it enjoyed in the tlme of the poet Ronsard.

9. violenoM à froid, ** cold-blooded violence of speech." 16. invite, signal for trumps; a term in whist for a card played to show one's hand to one's partner.