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27 16 tenait bon: 'stood its ground firmly', adverbial use of the adjective cf.sentir bon and the corresponding English 'to smell good'. 27 27 fit: cf. note to 21 22. 28 8 il lui prit la main: 'he took his hand', cf. note to 12 25. 28 12 Bompard: the personages of "Tartarin de Tarascon" appear in other novels of Daudet. For Bompard see particularly "Numa Roumestan."
[Note 1: Bloody Ground. Partie du territoire de l'Ohio, nommée
After a desperate struggle a man broke through the crowd. 2. Tartarin himself was rolling on the ground. 3. He shook himself and sat down all out of breath. 4. As soon as he received the letter, he put aside the Arabs with a gesture. 5. What under the sun have you done? 6. You are mistaken; you are not a laughing-stock to the women and children. 7.
«Que je suis contente que vous soyez venue, dit Betsy. Je n'en puis plus, et je voulais précisément prendre une tasse de thé avant leur arrivée..... Et vous, dit-elle en se tournant vers Toushkewitch, vous ferlez bien d'aller avec Marie essayer le crocket ground l
84 7 en train: cf. note to 67 13. 84 9 encore: cf. note to 18 31. 84 10 tint bon: 'held his ground'; cf. note to 27 16. 84 14 se replie ... marabout: 'retreats as fast as he can to the marabout. For
The town of Québec is poorly, but the ground round about it is rocky. To invest the place and cut off all communications with the colony it will be necessary to encamp with our right to the river St. Lawrence and our left to the river St. Charles.»
It is still therefore in His Majesty's power to instruct his Governors to leave that tract of ground on the frontiers unconceded, at least for some years, when a better judgment may be made than at present of the turn which affairs may take, on this continent.»
The ground is the property of a Mr. Forbett, a respectable tradesman of this island, who has a little cottage close adjoining to it. He assented with great readiness to the proposition of the body being buried there.
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