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10 22 par les lourdes après-midi d'été: 'during the sultry summer afternoons. Note the use of par in statements relating to the weather; cf. 32 1, 63 17.
49 24 il faisait un soleil, une poussière: faire may be used in almost any expression concerning the weather; faire chaud, du soleil, du vent, de la poussière, etc. Here, 'it was so terribly hot, so dusty. 49 25 d'un lourd: 'frightfully heavy', adjective used as an abstract noun, of such English usages as 'of a decided red. On the suppression cf. note to 15 21.
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