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93 6 dromadaire: the word is here used correctly according to the Academy's dictionary, which makes dromadaire a name of the one humped species of camel. According to more exact usage a dromedary is a high bred camel for special speed, usually of the one humped species but not necessarily so, in this sense Tartarin's beast can hardly claim the name. 93 7 que devenir: lit. 'what to become', transl.
LORD HOLLAND There was one part of the noble Duke's speech which had given him the greatest pleasure and which reflected the highest credit upon the noble Duke. He need hardly say that he alluded to the temper, the manliness and generosity with which the noble Duke had animadverted upon what had fallen from the noble marquis with regard to prince de Talleyrand.
[Note 17: «Louisbourg is a little place and has but one casement in it, hardly big enough to hold the women. Our artillery made havock among them (the garrison) and soon opened the rempart: in two days more we should certainly have, carried it. If this force had been properly managed, there was an end of the french colony in North America, in one campaign, for we have exclusive of seamen and mariners, near to forty thousand men in arms.» Lettre du général Wolfe
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