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[ 1.] Adjugé, taken; a word used at auctions to indicate that the bidder accepts an article at the price named.
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[ 1.] A la baïonnette, charge bayonets.
[ 2.] feu de charbonnière, charcoal burner's fire; the charbonnière is the place where charcoal is being made, and the allusion is to the crackling of the fire in the big heaps of brush.
[ 3.] La Marseillaise, the French national hymn alluded to on page 16, line 29, where it is not expressly named. An interesting history of this air is given by Karl Blind in The Nineteenth Century for July, 1901, No. 283, page 93. Roget de l'Isle, the author of the song, was in Strasburg and was asked to write words and music for a war song in honor of the volunteers who were marching to battle from the city. He wrote the words, for his music he adapted the Credo of the Mass from a composition written in 1776 by Holzmann, Kapellmeister to the Elector of the Palatinate.
[ 4.] au pas de course, double quick.
[ 5.] quitter la partie, to give up.
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[ 1.] couper, applied to the ordinary minor operations; trancher, to amputations made because the injured members could not be saved; amputer, to the usual amputations made to save the lives of the wounded.
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[ 1.] il a l'air bon enfant, he looks like a good fellow.
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[ 1.] 1er, read premier.
[ 2.] encore, more.