PHRASES
is there anything so curious ?
it seemed as if they vvere sisters we were very nearly the same âge
he had done it for fun
I am at least three years older
he and his late sister
to take big strides (use marcher)
without his allowing it
you do not impose upon me
to work in concert
to laugh heartily
he at once turned to me
does not everything dépend on
you ?
that 's the course we must take he is too prudent to give it up provided you are right to make some one buy sg.
to impart sg. to others
a circle of people of ail sorts was he not a friend of yours ?
in spite of any one •
with a satisfied look
to whisper sg. in somebody's ears
I am not surpri.sed at his having
refused he triumphed over ail his enemies you might hâve told me vv'hat need hâve we of suchthings?
after speaking of many people not so much as you imagine not that we regret it to undertake to do sg.
it is good that he should know it to be armed to the teeth
I had scarcely gone when . .
no one will give me the lie his mind was soon made up he took a pinch of snuff to speak in an offensive manner we went up quicker than we had gone down
Words and Phrases
Page WORDS
46 Spain to h.ite to hiiry
47 llic flesh ugly olive-coloured
48 a Spaniard a novel
the discovery
49 conformable to the goal, aini
a penalty
50 to strike nioreover Turkey
51 unforeseen a grievance by chance
WOKDS
the reading
iinquestionably
to lend
the skin
to add
a guitar
the bridge a madnian to cry down, discrédit dreadful to fold a fine
the disorder a revolt an in ter val
the convent a plagiarist to smile
52 the height, acnie a snuff-box embroidered the knocker
a periwig a preatnble
a citizen
to abridge
the plague
to cripple
a proof
a funeral
an epitaph
the pavement
to congratulate
a whim
to aniount to . .
the husband
the attire
the heel
a worknian
a pedestal
the painter
a patch, beauty spot
to imprint
the caravansery
a mould
the fright
a martyr
the purity
to diminish
a sign
an extent
to upset
the reverse
the risk
l'HRASKS
1 have Ix-en hère for six nionths l)eyond any doubt to happon to be in need of money to enibrace the Christian religion are you not interested in this
s tory ?
he who stays there tcn hours a
day the only one that is good . .
when did the sun set yesterday ?
I should not be sorry for it
in the way that best suits tbcni
whether he cornes or not
to inflict sg. on sonie one
to do sg. in one's own way
less than anywhere else
there does not remain cnough
to try none of them were thinking of it they are said to eut off their
tongues without his answering to give sg. a malicious construction I dont set any value upon it a common-sense man in the eyes of foreigners to ask some one where he cornes
from to pay visits whoIesale I rejoice at your success ready-made ciothes what use \\ouId it Vie for us to
try?
Ijtîfore you had received my letter to go and spend six months in
the country whatever people may say the most powerful states in
Europe prqjjerly sjjeaking to impart sg. to some one it is not to his interest to accept to attempt soniebody's life he got off with a slight punish-
ment
Page woKDs
58 to disturb
the benevolence,
good-will to win
59 to hide
to eut the throat
of the seal
60 the injury,
damage the means a murderer
61 to entrust to surrender
{infr) a pretext
62 chemistry a scourge the compass
{nav)
63 to despise a monkey odd, qiieer
64 to prohibit the consent prejudicial
65 shameful to refine the leisure
66 to banish the fancy
a private man
67 the delight the paradise a priest
68 to get angry
faithless to reward
69 to shake a curve
a musketeer
