ferme, firmly. This word is quite commonly

used as an adverb.

17. comme avec un appétit de vertige, as if eager to hâve the sensation of dizziness; or simply, as if with an appetite for dizzy heights. The student must try to catch the peculiar force of the original. Note that the text does not say du, but de vertige. This makes of appétit de vertige & sort of compound. No translation can take the place of a direct appréciation of such niceties of language.

32.— 6. Les quarts de fer-blanc, the tin vessels in which the soldiers cook their meals. They are hung on the sabre-baïonnette, that is on the hilt of a short sword which is made to fit the gun as a bayonet.