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They could earn scarcely enough to satisfy their most pressing needs, but both were happy, since they were in Paris. Before Alphonse's arrival Ernest had secured regular employment on a newspaper. Alphonse was longing for recognition as a poet, but to earn his living he was forced to turn to prose. His contributions to Le Figaro and other newspapers soon made him known.
That the Mohawks living at a distance from the sea, have little intercourse with these parts, but in the war the English had with the Pequods, 14 or 16 years before, the Mohawks shewed a real respect and had offered no hostilities since.
Since the minaret is high and from the top the muezzin has a view of the roofs of the houses where the Mohammedan women spend a great deal of the time, blind men are sought for this office découpant ... dans: 'his white shadow standing out against. 63 6 chantant la gloire d'Allah: cf. note to 92 1. 63 chapter heading On ... Tarascon. 'our Tarascon correspondent writes us.
Old Egypt's king Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid, But somebody or other rummaging, Burglariously broke his coffin's lid: Let not a monument give you or me hopes Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops.
Not as a foe, but friend, converse with Death, Since to the port of happiness unknown He brought that treasure which you call your own.
Since Goffart's work on the ensilage of green crops, published in 1877, the word has become familiar in America, our silo for green crops being usually above ground. 87 5 judiciaires: 'judiciary'; i.e., offered to the judges. 87 10 y passèrent: 'went by the same road'; i.e., were sold.
'has not given of his news since. 65 15 Qu'est devenu: 'what has become of? lit. 'what has become? Cf. note to 93 7. 65 23 Tombouctou: 'Timbuktu, the most famous city of central Africa, a French possession since 1893, in Tartarin's time only three Europeans had ever reached it, and one of these was killed two days after he left the city. 65 24 garde: subjunctive.
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