Note 8 — Section 153. NEW-YEAR’S EVE. II.
Reading edition
[1] sprühen, w. v.
[2] Use the Impf. Subj. according to App. § 33; as if, als.
[3] und ich weiß nicht wie viel Behaglichkeit und Wärme ausstrahlte.
[4] ‘to go out’, and ‘to burn out’, here erlöschen, insep. comp. str. v.
[5] The Present Participle may be used here in German, but where must it be placed?
[6] In which Voice is the verb here? Introduce the clause by the grammatical subject ‘es’, as explained in S. 104, N. 19.
[7] where = at (an) the place (Stelle, f.) where.
[8] diese.
[9] Use the superlative of hoch.
[10] Here follows the verb ‘waddled’.
[11] in its = in the, contracted; towards, auf ... zu, which latter preposition place at the end of the whole period.
[12] Then = Thereupon.
[13] auf´putzen, sep. comp. w. v.
[14] at (an, contracted with the dat. of the def. art.) Christmas-day.
[15] The preposition ‘at,’ in the signification of ‘at the house of’ is generally rendered by the preposition ‘bei’, which governs the dative; as—
At Easter we shall all dine at my mother’s. Am Ostertage werden wir alle bei meiner Mutter zu Mittag essen.
[16] von.
[17] painted = coloured, bunt.
[18] such as, wie.
[19] Supply the pronominal adverb ‘danach’ before the particle aus, which stands at the end.