• A bullet as large as an egg. ↩
  • Walter Scott, Lamartine, Vaulabelle, Charras, Quinet, Thiers. ↩
  • This is the inscription: D.O.M. cy a été écrasé par malheur sous un cahriot, Monsieue Bernard de Brye Marchand a Bruxelle Le [illegible] Fevrier 1637. ↩
  • A heavy rifled gun. ↩
  • “A battle terminated, a day finished, false measures repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow⁠—all was lost by a moment of panic, terror.” Napoleon, Dict’es de Sainte H’l’ne . ↩
  • Five winning numbers in a lottery ↩
  • Philosophe . ↩
  • Literally “made cuirs;” i.e. , pronounced a t or an s at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used either one of them where neither exists. ↩
  • Lawyer Corbeau, perched on a docket, held in his beak a writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him nearly as follows, etc. ↩
  • This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your jugs and crocks, Flowerpots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to every comer. ↩
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