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Bungei Shunju (publisher); Bungei Shunju (magazine)

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dwarf

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hair-raising; bloodcurdling; horrible; shocking; gruesome

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pen

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to begin to tremble

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not only ... (but also); not merely; as well as; furthermore; besides; moreover

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drool

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to flow out; to stream out; to pour out; to gush forth; to leak; to ooze out

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circle; "correct"; "good"; *; _; period

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veronal

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to remonstrate; to admonish (someone) for; to advise (someone) not to; to warn against

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half an hour; half hour

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financially scraping by; meagre existence (meager); hand to mouth existence; living one's life without plan; living life day-by-day; taking life one day at a time

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so to speak; so to call it; as it were

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sword (esp. a large, double-edged one); blade; bayonet; swordsmanship; stinger; ovipositor

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sword (esp. a large, double-edged one); blade; bayonet; swordsmanship; stinger; ovipositor

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cane; walking stick; staff; wand

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actually; really

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stare; gaze; fixation

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step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan

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to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)

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ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid

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taking a quantity (of time, people, etc.); similar to ...; dependent on ...; reliant on ...; while ...; when ...

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record; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); results; to record; to document

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to lose one's mind; to go crazy; to lose one's senses; to lose consciousness

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step by step; by degrees

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figure; form; style

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confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)

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coherence; order; focus; point

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to pinch; to nip

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to be evident; to be obvious; to understand completely

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extensive knowledge; erudition

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to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for

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original; unique; distinctive; independent; one's own; personal

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to draw (a line); to demarcate; to mark; to plan

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to commit suicide; to end one's life; (lit.) to choose death

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to drive on; to urge forward (e.g. cattle); to rouse (game from its cover); to press a tenant to leave; to evict

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perhaps; possibly; by some chance; by some possibility

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direct; frank; straightforward; decisive; prompt

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intricate; complicated

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keen; acute; heartfelt

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one's own way

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stagnation; inactivity

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Pacific saury (Cololabis saira); mackerel pike

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poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem

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poet

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manuscript fee; payment for a piece of writing

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man of letters; literary man

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ordinary; sensible; commonplace

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adventure; venture; venture which is unlikely to succeed; risky attempt; danger

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