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PBENDRE, VAINCRE. 59<br />
6. They began to laugh when they saw us. 7. Is it not expensive to<br />
live in Paris? 8. Let us be on the alert. 9. Frenchman, said Henry IV<br />
to his soldiers on the point of giving battle, if you lose your standards,<br />
follow your king. 10. Do not promise what ( 217) you cannot keep.<br />
11. So great a prince will for ever live in history. 12. That play is<br />
very popular (followed). 13. This desponding idea haunts me night and<br />
day. 14. You have begun well ( 238. b), proceed! 15. We began to<br />
laugh, and they began to cry. 16. He lived like a prince.<br />
LIP legon: Prendre, vaincre. 99. D.<br />
(a) Prendre part a . . . , To take a share in . . .<br />
en bonne (mauvaise) part, To take kindly, well fill, amiss).<br />
la parole, To begin to speak.<br />
fait et cause pour quelqu'un, To take one's part.<br />
son parti,<br />
To make up one's mind.<br />
la clef des champs. To bolt; to sheer off.<br />
garde (prenez garde de To mind (mind you don't fall).<br />
tomber),<br />
patience, To have patience, to be patient.<br />
S'en prendre a (je m'en prendrai a To blame (I shall lay the blame on you).<br />
vous),<br />
Ne savoir comment s'y prendre,<br />
Bien lui a pris d'etre averti,<br />
Not to know how to set about,<br />
It was lucky for him he was warned.<br />
II lui en prendra mal, 111 will betide him; it will be the worse<br />
Aller (venir) prendre quelqu'un, To call for some one. [for him.<br />
Prendre 1'occasion aux cheveux, To take time by the Prendre a tdmoin,<br />
forelock.<br />
To call to witness.<br />
Prendre les devants,<br />
A tout prendre,<br />
To take the<br />
In the main.<br />
start.<br />
Upon the Le prendre de haut (bien haut), To talk big.<br />
whole. All in all.<br />
S'dprendre de, To take a fancy for (to be smitten with).<br />
La riviere est prise, The river is frozen over.<br />
(Impers.) II me prend un grand / am seized with a great trembling.<br />
tremblement,<br />
Prendre (la prise d') une ville, To take (the taking of) a town.<br />
Conque'rir (la conquete d') un pays, To conquer (the conquest of) a country.<br />
Vaincre (la victoire sur) 1'ennemi, To conquer (the victory over) the enemy.<br />
Regie: Les verbes prendre, demander, enseigner, etc. veulent le nom de la<br />
personne au datif ( 130).<br />
(fo) 1. Qu'est-ce que Cesar ecrivit au senat remain, apres<br />
avoir vaincu Phar-<br />
nace? Je suis venu, j'ai vu, j'ai vaincu (je vins, je vis, je vainguis).<br />
2. Quand est-ce que les Turcs prirent Constantinople? 11s la prirent<br />
en 1453. 3. Apprenez-vons 1'italien? Oui, je Vapprends; il y a neuf