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VERBES DEFECTIFS 61
Cettefiert6 d'ame sied bien a la vertu. This pride of the soul is a proper appan-
age of virtue.
JPai failli de tomber. 1 nearly fell; I was very near falling
Nous avons failli perdre notre argent. We escaped losing our money.
1. Autrefois on oignait les athletes pour la lutte. 2. Le jour point.
3. J'aime beaucoup les soles frites. 4. Nous faisons frire les carpes quo
nous prenons. 5. Les flots bruissaient. 6. On entend bruire les vagues
et le tonnerre. 7. Ces hommes ne chantent pas, ils braient. 8. Cette
porte ne clot pas bien. 9. Je clorai mon pare par un fosse large et
profond. 10. Certains papillons eclosent des les premieres chaleurs.
11. II y a des couleurs qui sieent mieux que d'autres a certaines physionomies.
12. II sierait mal a un enfant de se croire plus sage qu'un
vieillard. 13. Le premier terme du fermage echoit (echet) a la S* Jean.
14. II faudrait pour le tirer d'affaire qu'il lui echut quelque grande succession
d'Amerique. 15. Au cas echeant comptez sur moi. 16 On prit
la ville sans coup ferir. 17. Sa memoire lui faillit tout a coup. 18. Nous
faillimes tous perir dans le port. 19. Fai failli de tomber. 20. Get
homme si redoute git maintenant dans le tombeau. 21. Nous 1'avons
trouve gisant sur la paille. 22. Un juge doit ouir les deux parties.
(c) 1. Quels animaux braient? 2. Quand est-ce que les perce-neige eclosent?
3. Ou avez-vous oui dire cela? 4. Par quels adverbes anglais peut-on
rendre le verbe 'faillir'? 5. Ce chapeau me sied-il bien?
(d) 1. Here lie the heroes who have sacrificed themselves for their country.
2. Napoleon took Malta without striking a blow. 3. Has the servant
fried the fish we have taken to-day? 4. This estate has fallen to his
share. 5. [As] those colours suit 1
you so well, you ought to prefer
them to others. 6. It would ill become me to find fault with your arrangements.
7. (The) heat hatches the silkworms. 8. His courage soon
failed him. 9. A great misfortune well 2
nigh happened to us. 10. This
young lady nearly fainted. 11. This balcony stands out too much.
1 Pres. Part. 2 it failed to happen to us a ....
IJV e
legon: Verbes; forts et irrdguliers. Recapitulation.
I. 1. Why do you always repeat the same things? I must indeed (bien)
repeat them, since you always contradict me. 2. Cicero made four
speeches against Catilina. 3. Tell me what weather will it be to-morrow?
4. In order to become humane, it is necessary that the child should
know (146) that there are beings like himself (= to him), who suffer what
he has suffered, who feel the pains that he has felt. 5. One must never
repent having acted well. 6. Do you wish us to go out immediately?
7. Still waters run deep. 8. People often complain of their fortune,
when they ought to accuse but themselves. 9. Have you not been told