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Page 195 - To doubt, to question, to hesitate; to scruple. // doute de tout, he doubts everything; je doute que cela soit, I doubt whether it be so; je doute qu'il veuille le faire, I doubt whether he will do it...
Page 57 - ... entitled to speak, to be in possession of the House ; avoir peur, to be afraid ; avoir pour agréable, to regard as an agreeable person, to like; avoir pour patron, to have as master ; avoir raison, to be right ; avoir raison de, to get the mastery over; avoir soif, to be thirsty; avoir tort, to be wrong; c'est une femme comme il n'y en a point, she has not her like or match ; combien y at-il de Paris à Londres ? how far is it from Paris to London...
Page 296 - SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE (Evil Be To Him Who Evil Thinks).
Page 337 - A slang expression appears in to make one believe that the moon is made of green cheese.
Page 185 - To ask, to beg, to request; to sue for, to demand; to desire, to wish; to require, to call for; to need, to want; to inquire for or about; to ask to see; to seek in marriage; (Comm.) to order. Bien or très demandé, in great demand; cela demande une explication, that requires an explanation; demander l'aumône, to ask for alms; demander pardon, to ask forgiveness; demander...
Page 192 - Domination ; dominion, rule, sway; (pi.) dominions (of angels). dominer [cbmi'ne], vi To rule, to bear rule, to have the mastery, to control; to dominate, to preponderate, to prevail; to domineer, to lord it; to tower, to rise. Il faut que la raison domine sur les passions, reason must prevail over the passions. Sa tete domine au-dessus de la foule, his head rises above the crowd. — vt To dominate, to master, to command ; to rule, to govern; to prevail over, to domineer over; to rise above, to...
Page 343 - Lieutenantcolonel; (Ar.) wing commander. lièvre [lje:vr], nm Hare. C'est là que gît le lièvre, there's the rub; il ne faut pas courir deux lièvres à la fois, one must not have too many irons in the fire...
Page 277 - Rhone; munitions de bouche, provisions; que l'imposture ne souille point votre bouche. let not falsehood sully your lips; selon ta bourse, gouverne ta bouche, you must cut your coat according to your cloth; un cheval qui n'a ni bouche ni éperon, a horse that obeys neither bridle nor spur; un homme fort en bouche, a man that out-talks everybody. bouche d'or (bu/'dor), nJ Golden shell; mother of p.-arl.
Page viii - ... to meet the requirements of the present day. The Revisers have taken the greatest care in the selection of new words, while the inclusion of all phrases in common use in both languages will be found an especial feature of the work. The former edition has...
Page 118 - Een vogel in de — is beter dan tien in de lucht •--- a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, half a loaf is better than no bread...