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to vary considerably, +sehr verschieden sein+.

Supply the adverb +noch+ after the object.

Never — life? = You have never seen it in your life?

+ich wünsche es auch nicht.+

to look at a thing, +sich ein Ding an´sehen+.

‘to be in great danger’, here +Gefahr laufen+.

Supply here the object ‘+es+’.

+O nein.+

to prevail upon any one, +jemand überr´eden+.

‘thing’, here +Gegenstand+, m.

+noch mehr als eines zu besitzen.+

but — them, +aber wie ich dazu gekommen bin+.

to recollect, +sich etwas ins Gedächtnis zurück´rufen+.

The English ‘why’ is, in this instance, best rendered by the adverb ‘+ja+’, which place after the verb.

Use the Perf. Subj., according to App. §§ 28 and 30; here +mit´bringen+.

+Gewiß habe ich das.+

Say ‘But father, tell us at last,’ and supply the adverb ‘+doch+’ after the pron. ‘us’. Comp. Lange’s German Manual, p. 354, L. 31, N. 4.

Section 95.

ANGLO-SAXON DRESS.

The dress of civilians in general consisted of a shirt and tunic descending to the knee, of linen or wool, according to the season. A belt was often worn round the waist, and a short cloak over the whole. Drawers, leather shoes or short boots and hose, or sandals, completed the ordinary costume. Labourers (S. 3, N. 2) are generally represented with shoes, but without hose. Females of all ranks wore long, loose garments reaching to the ground, completely hiding (S. 16, N. 4) all symmetry of shape. Long hair, parted on the forehead, and falling naturally down the shoulders, with an ample beard and moustache, distinguish the Anglo-Saxons from the closely cropped Normans. Planche remarks that the character of face, as delineated in illuminations, immediately designates the age wherein the early portraits of our Lord, which have been reverently copied to the present day, were originally fabricated.—MILNER, HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

Say ‘The dress of the Anglo-Saxons’.

to consist of a thing, +aus etwas bestehen+.

to descend = to reach; to, +an+ or +auf+. Use the attributive construction explained in S. 48, N. 6.

according to, +je nach+.

waist = body.

Females = Women.

+Stand+, m.

+jede.+