major company; big company; front castle gate; force attacking the front of a castle
to be ill; to suffer from; to have trouble doing ...; to be unable to ...; to fail to ...
to rant and rave; to raise hell
approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; appropriate age (to ...); old enough (to ...)
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
New Year's Eve; end of the year
slightly; a little; barely; narrowly; only; just
simply; merely; only; solely
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
to wake (someone) up (by calling for them); to awaken; to call (to mind); to bring back (memories); to evoke
natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder
skilled miner; coal-cutter
fourth day of the month; four days
figure of a person; figures of people; shadow of a person
to shout (in anger); to yell
faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre
development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around; having an active sex life
excavation; cutting; digging
lonely; lonesome; dreary; (arch.) loneliness; (arch.) desolation
imagination; supposition; guess
to hide; to keep to oneself
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; clumsy; unskilled
considerably; not a little; in no small numbers
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
to continue; to keep up; to keep on
break; tear; pierce; split; burst
distant peals (thunder); distant roar (sea)
to slope; to descend; to slide (snow, etc.)
thinking; thought; idea; notion; intention; plan
destruction; disruption; (application) crash
to match (rhythm, speed, etc.); to join together; to unite; to face; to be opposite (someone); to compare; to check with
to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely
to cut down; to chop down; to fell
thin; skinny; delicate; fragile; feeble
last ray of hope; only hope