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to bear towards a place (nav)

about 10 miles distant

a boat specially built for this

service it goes without saying a short distance away to drift about at the mercy of

the wiuds to be short of provisions to die of hunger without being able to rescue it

he was longing to get ashore

the two lianks of the river

a block of white and grey

to arrive safely [buildings

he has no leisure

after a long stay

to go across the garden

to erect a monument

in memory of some one

to dig a hole

towards 11 o'clock at night

the bell has just rung

it had just broken

he cast a look round

to wake up with a start

to start on one s way again

at day break

to set Bail for Europe

to follow some one's example

that is just like a novel

to hâve lx)ard and lodglngs

to be moved to tears

to overcome one's émotion

to hâve to deal with some one

a thiu layer of ice

the suow was falling in big

flakes to put on one's skates to throw one's self flat on the ice to draw some one back to watch for one's opportunity

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20 a cry of an-

guish to Le exhausted to dive

21 the pain grown pale, pale the fever

22 to demand,

exact the repairs the office

23 a {paper) kite the muscle

an inhabitant

24 to crackle

to slide, glide a space

25 a sledge the rigging the keel

to pass by {of time)

26 clever

to draw ont a mortar to water, sprinkle

27 the breaking up

of the ice the pnrchase the interpréter

28 the wood-cutter to eut down the raft

29 the saw-mill the bark (nfa

tree) surprisiug

30 the hedge the plain the thickness to be laden

with . .

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to breathe wan, dim to be stifled

the delirium

the truce

to pass by [of

time) to supervise the prescription

{med) the birch-tree the snow pleasant the skill empty to taste intoxicating the palace to bring out,

make stand

out

the summit to sketch a lighthouse

to put out,

stump to put by the salary to pile up {intr) a scaffolding to tie together

at full speed the steep bank to guess

the cold north

wind to change (of a

railway)

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