Audiobook Dictation: “As for the pills and drops…”

As for the "pills" and "drops" with which her husband doses himself between the courses, it makes me ill even to think of them.

Quant aux « pilules » et aux « gouttes » dont son mari se gave entre les plats, rien que d'y penser me rend malade.

On Christmas Eve the weather was abominable.

La veille de Noël, le temps était abominable.

All night it had been blowing and raining.

Toute la nuit, il avait venté et plu.

In the morning it began to freeze.

Le matin, il se mit à geler.

By the time the streets were like so many skating rinks it commenced to snow.

Quand les rues furent devenues autant de patinoires, il se mit à neiger.

And it kept on snowing; that turned out to be quite a record in the way of snow-storms.

Et il continua de neiger ; ce fut un véritable record en matière de tempêtes de neige.