DUTY

1108. Do your duty. My duties are not very light.

I was on duty. My company does duty. Give my duties to your father.

• Favour.

1109. Your favour of the 10*^ instant is at hand.

Your faveurs will be attended to. With your favour. M" X. requests the favour of your Company at her evening party. He wore the lady's' favours. Are you in favour of Reform? He found favour with the minister. They went near the wall under favour of the night.

Fellow.

1110. I owe a duty to my fellow-citizens. We ought

to hke ail our fellow-creatures. I hâve a fellow-feeling for ail my fellow-soldiers. I am on excellent terms with ail my school-fellows. You are a nice fellow. You are a good fellow. He is an odd fellow. I passed a poor old fellow on the road. I wait for a fellowtraveller. Where is the fellow-picture ? I am a fellow of the University.

File.

1111. A file of papers. File-firing. In close file. Left

file! We marched in file. We lost two hundred ranks and file. — Hâve you a smooth file? He is a cunning file. — File ofif! Her tongue is filed.

Fit and To Fit.

1112. He had a fit. He works by fits and starts. I

think fit to report you. You are not fit for the place you hold. He is not fit to live.

Thèse boots do not fit me. Our midshipmen were splendidly fitted out. Fit that frame. The shop is fitted up.

For.

1113. I do not like to get wet, for I am subject to

colds. Speak for me. I was absent for two years. Pay for your dinner. It is not for you to scold me. A man is a man, for ail that. I did that for your sake. For want of provisions, the army could not advance. We hâve excbanged our muskets for carbines. This gênerai was never beaten , for aught I know.

Did you ask for me? Were it not for your kindness, they would bave starved.