redoubla d'insistance : cf. note on p

14. comme Mahomet avec la montagne: Mahomet, when pressed by the Arabs to perform a miracle in order to prove his commission, commanded Mount Safa to corne to him, and as it did not stir, he said : ' God is merciful. Had it obeyed my bidding, it would have crushed us to death. I will therefore go to the mountain, and thank God for His mercy. ' ,, 16. en était venu à ses fins : notice the idiomatic use of cîi and the plural ses fins.

23. la poêle (Lat. /<2/<?//<27;2), * frying-pan' ; le poêle (l^^t. pensile), ' stove' ; le poêle (Low Lat. petalum), ' pall.*

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