scaffolding
Rating: 5.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
took her in
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
whilst she was still very young
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
trembled, shivered
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
rags
syn = lambeaux
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
on her stomach/lying flat
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
pondwater
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
for nothing
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
theft
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
an old form of "sou." It disappeared in 1795
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidus_%28coin%29#France
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
girl who worked in the farmyard with the animals.
PG translates it with "she tended the poultry" whereas the Dover Publications edition translates it with "she became a dairymaid"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(literary) = envy
syn =envier à
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
then, at this time
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
some kind of fair
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
dazzled
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
stupefied, bewildered
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
din/racket
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(outdated) fiddlers.
modern version: violoneux
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 3 months ago by daniel
"the brightness" or "the gay medley"
maybe "kaleidoscope of colours," although anachronistic, might do it justice..
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
lace
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
all jigging/jumping/hopping/dancing at the same time
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
kept her distance
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
well-to-do
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
elbows
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
on the pole/shaft of a wagon/carriage
Discussion here: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=91178
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
cake
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
a shawl
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"thinking she had guessed his purpose"
"imagining she had guessed his meaning"
"figuring that she had understood what he was after"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
drive her home
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
field
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
oats
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
pushed/threw her roughly down
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
began/started
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
he went away
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
overtake
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
hay-wagon
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
as she brushed past the wheels
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
greeted her
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
since
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
see grammar
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
felt like
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
to run away
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 3 months ago by LornaPowell
harvests
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"worthies" or "notable" (a famous or important person)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(here) so that.
can also mean "in such a way that"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 3 months ago by daniel
(old) get him settled down (i.e. find him a wife)
http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/etablir 2a)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
Well, anyway, besides.
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
in a hurry
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(literally) to his taste
or "to his liking"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
answered (literary)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
mock/make fun
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
I swear it to you! (implied: I'm not! I'm in earnest!)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(implied: avec sa main/son bras)
"he put his arm around her waist"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
held up
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
either :
1) embrace
2) (violent) grip
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
indicates a warm, humid air
http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/mou
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
cart-load. See grammar
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
swayed/teetered/wobbled
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
traîner = to drag
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
steps/paces
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
dust
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
embraced/clasped.
the PG version even has "kiss"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
into the shadows/darkness
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
obtained from her. See grammar
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
at the end of/at the bottom of
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
yards
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"as girls of well-to-do families are" (PG)
"as young ladies are" (Dover Publications)
"in the manner of young, well-educated girls."
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
prevented her from
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(literary) succombing/giving in.
Both translations I'm reading have "fall"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
so much so/ to such an extent that
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"le" referring to amour...
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
made a great deal of promises/ swore sincere oaths/ made solemn promises (PG)/ swore great oaths of fidelity (Dover publications)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
Bought him a substitute (for the army). See analysis
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
serve (in the army)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
cowardice.
Syn = lâcheté
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
her "tendresse" (affection, tenderness)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
parvenir à = to reach, arrive somewhere
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
entreaties/urging/insistence
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
to protect oneself from
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
sorrow/grief
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
wild/chaotic/uncontrollable
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
gémit = whimpered/wailed/moaned.
PG translated it as "wandered around desolately" (walking around is certainly implied)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(old) received her wages
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
se rendre à = to go
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
the inn
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"capeline" = a large-brimmed hat and "veuve" = widow.
I can't find any instances of the combination, though...
Pg's translation of "widow's weeds" is quite nice or "widow's cap"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"as it happened" or "actually"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
willingness
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
demands
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
So be it!
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
very unusual usage of "tremblement."
"to live in a constant anxiety" (PG)
"in a constant shudder/shakiness"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"the type of household"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
hovering over
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
défendre à qn de + infinitive =
to forbid somone to do + verb
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
which mortified/hurt her
OR
which caused her much sorrow
(her = Felicity)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
melted away
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
regular (visitors)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
game of Boston (card-game)
Boston was a predecessor of Bridge
http://www.lebridge.info/boston.html
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
foot-warmer
also used to refer to bed-warmers and car-heaters
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
on the dot/exactly (the "bien" is not necessary nowadays)
syn = "pile"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
bric-à-brac tradesman/secondhand goods dealer
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
spread out
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
old metal goods.
The PG edition translates it generally as "wares"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
buzzing/droning
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
neighing/whinnying
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
bleating/ baas
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
oinking/grunting
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
two (or 4) wheeled cart drawn by a single horse
http://tinyurl.com/3jbjbuo
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"at the height of" (i.e. when the market was "in full swing")
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
doorstep/threshold of the house
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
hooked
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"gaiters shod with spurs" (Dover Publishing)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
landlady
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
frustrated/foiled/thwarted
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"was a match for their cunning" (dover)
This is a good translation
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
tricks/ruses/cunning
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(old) debauchery
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
patch/plot
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
poodle
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
dirtied
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
despite/in spite of
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"he even went so far as"
"which he carried to the point of"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
my late father
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
literally, "habit carrying him away" (entrainer is used, in this sense, for the current of a river, carrying someone away)
or, more figuratively, "old habits getting the better of him" (PG) OR "old habits being too strong for him"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
uttered, let slip
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
inappropriate/improper remarks or bawdy/broad stories
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
you have enough!
Rating: 0.0/5
9 months, 3 weeks ago by JonnyStreat19
old/retired lawyer
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
baldness
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
frill (only for shirts)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
see here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redingote
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
take snuff (powdered tobacco)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"produced in her the kind of awe which we feel when we see" (PG)
"Created that disturbance of mind which overtakes us at the sight" (Dover Publications)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
managed/administered
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
compromise oneself i.e. risk one's reputation
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
legal structure/hierarchy
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
most editions translate this simply as "knew some latin" but the Gutenberg translator has it as:
"had some pretensions to learning"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
Geography book with a series of prints (i.e. images)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
Anthropophagi or Cannibals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropophage
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
desert-dwelling, arab ethnic tribe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedouin
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
Whale
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
beautiful handwriting
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(rare) sharpened
more common synonym = aiguiser
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
pocket-knife
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
early in the morning
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
on a slope/sloping
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
stain
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
basket (literary)
syn = panier
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
slices
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(rare) adjoining
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
dairy
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
also known as a "folie." See analysis
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
in shreds/pieces
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
bowed her head
front = forehead
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
overcome by memories
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"they scampered off" (PG) or "and off they went" (Dover publications)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
barn
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
played at stone skipping/skimming. Also known as "to play ducks and drakes"
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_%28jeu%29
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(literary) barrel
common syn = tonneau
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
drums
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
to run, rush
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
to pick cornflowers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornflower
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
pantalonettes or drawers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantalettes
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
embroidered
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(literary) pastures
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
fog
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
sinuosities/bends/winding
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
synonym of "herbe" (grass)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
litrerally "in a circle in front of them", which makes one think it must be a half-circle (as, indeed, the Dover translator has it)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
Fear nothing!
Rating: 0.0/5
9 months, 3 weeks ago by JonnyStreat19
droning, low-sounding lament
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
patted
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
spine
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
turned round
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(from a bull) bellowing
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"mended their pace" ; "sped up" ; "moved faster" (set phrase)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
hooves
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
hammers
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
tore up/snatched
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
patch/clod of earth
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
muzzle
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
shook his horns
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
cross over/get over
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
bank
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
moved backwards
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
clumps of grass/pieces of turf
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
blinded him
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
ditch
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
tâcher de = tenter de/ essayer de (to try to)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
climb up
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
embankment/bank/slope
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
by sheer/by dint of
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
cornered
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
a rail-fence
http://tinyurl.com/3k4vq3u
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
drool/slaver/foam
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
was splashing/streaming onto.
flew into
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
on her face
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
would have disembowelled her
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
slip between
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
rails (in the context of a rail fence)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
fright
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
salt-water bathing
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
made preparations
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
packages/bags
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
cart
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 2 months ago by LornaPowell
muni de = fitted with
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 2 months ago by LornaPowell
back (of seat)
http://tinyurl.com/45496k5
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
velvet
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
croup (back part of a horse)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
rolled coat
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
seat
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 2 months ago by LornaPowell
mounted/got on
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
ass, donkey
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
lent
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
Pastern. The part of a horse's foot between the fetlock and hoof.
see here http://tinyurl.com/3zx9lao
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
mud
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(on a horse) haunches
(on a person) hips
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
tripped against
syn: trébucher contre
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
ruts
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
should read "il leur fallait sauter"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
mare (female horse)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
formal (and perhaps old?) way of saying "à certains endroits", "in some places"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
suddenly
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
lined
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
nasturtiums
http://www.aujardin.info/plantes/capucine.php
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
took, entered into, turned down
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
path/lane
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
a gate swung open
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
a pile of manure, slurry
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
lavished/gave a great deal of
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
sirloin steak.
Equivalent to the "bottom sirloin" in this diagram: http://tinyurl.com/3ubqcy2
A treat, but not the nicest cut..
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
black-pudding
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
chicken stew
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fricassee
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
sparkling/fizzy
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
fruit tart (Normandy's fruit tarts are legendary)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
brandied plums
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"stronger" or "filled out"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
deceased
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"stamp of antiquity" (Dover publications)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
a small "poutre" (beam or girder)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
worm-eaten.
a worm = un ver
moulu = ground (from moudre, to grind) or worn down
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
smoke
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
tiles
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
sideboard
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
oak
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
ewer, water pitcher
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
pewter dishes
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
wolf-trap (!)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(old) shears.
farmers now use what they call "une tondeuse" (from tondre: to shear)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
syringe
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
its branches/boughs
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
tuft
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
mistletoe
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
thrown down (the trees)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
taken root again
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
we bending, sagging
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
thickness
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
squall/ gust of wind
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
wagon-shed
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"would work something out"; "would attend to it"
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=895875
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
re-saddle
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
caravan in the sense of group of travellers
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
cliff
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
overhanging
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"for want of"
"as she had no"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
customs officer
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
undulating, hilly
(val = valley)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
lawn
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
pastures (i.e. non-ploughed field)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
ploughed fields or "arable" (i.e. suitable for ploughing)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
on the edge
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
in the mass of holly
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
holly
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
rose up straight/ "rose stiffly" (New Directions edition)/ stood straight
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
meadow
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
having Deauville on the left
Rating: 0.0/5
9 months, 3 weeks ago by JonnyStreat19
(la mer)
Rating: 0.0/5
9 months, 3 weeks ago by JonnyStreat19
sparrows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrow
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
chirped
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
arch/vault
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
sewing
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
was plaiting rushes
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonc
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
sarcler can mean "to hoe" or "to pull out" ; "weed"
PG appears to have gone a step far: "wove lavender blossom"
New Directions edition has got it right : "was pulling up lavender"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
shells
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
low-tide
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
uncovered/exposed
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
sea-urchins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_urchin
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
Normand name for "Coquille St. Jacques" (scallop)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scallop
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
jellyfish
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
grab, seize, catch
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 2 months ago by LornaPowell
"foam-flakes scudded by the wind" (New Directions edition)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
sleepy waves
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
shore
syn = rivage
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
endlessly
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
the marsh
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
that is to say, like a U with a closed top
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
slope
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(here) hill or hillside
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
dazzling, blinding
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 2 months ago by LornaPowell
(literary) cast/threw bars of light
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
slats of the blinds
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
pavement
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(naval) caulker.
a person who caulks the seams of boats or the like. To caulk is to stop up the gaps...
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(old and technical) plug/fill holes
Modern term would be "boucher"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
The part of the hull ("coque") which is subjmerged in the water
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
breeze
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
tar
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
boats
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 2 months ago by LornaPowell
beacons (floating in water to mark the entrance to a harbour/bay)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
tack (presumably they are turning windward, to take the power out of their sails)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
foresail
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
swollen
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
balloon
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
swashing/lapping
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
waves
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
anchor
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
sailors
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 2 months ago by LornaPowell
(naval) side of the boat
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
quivering/pulsating
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
baskets
syn = panier
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
new-born babe/infant
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
boy, under 16, who worked on the boats.
"cabin-boy"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
literally "fists on hips" but with the sense of "hands on hips.
You can also say "les mains sur les hanches"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
sent her away/dismissed her
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"around" or "in the vicinity of"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
"se prendre d'affection pour" = to grow fond of
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
stove
syn = "cuisinière" or even "poêle"
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
obviously
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
agitated/bothered/annoyed
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
used "tu" (instead of "vous)
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
coughed/had a cough/was still coughing
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
(here) instructed
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
resigned herself
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
remoteness/distance/separation
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
Virginie thought/reflected about it less and less
Rating: 0.0/5
9 months, 3 weeks ago by JonnyStreat19
regretter is used here in the sense of "missed"
tapage = noise/din/racket
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
venir is used to suggest the introduction of something new:
a new distracton came along to take her mind off it
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel
catechism.
Religious instruction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catechism
Rating: 0.0/5
1 year, 10 months ago by daniel