flottant, hesitating, wavering

1. 4. le matériel (d'une armée) is the baggage, artillery, etc., as distinguished from the troops.

11. 11-15. allaient, retournassent, partageassent. Thèse verbs are ail dépendent on siipposable. The first is in the indicative becaxise stated as a fact ; tlie second is a mère supposition, and the last has a négative. See Edgren, 323<r; Whitney, 133.