your wife; his wife; secret meeting; secrecy
drink at home with one's evening meal; dinner-time drink
manufacturing method; recipe; formula
servant; manservant; menial
to expand; to swell (out); to get big; to become inflated
beat; palpitation; pulsation; throbbing
sprout; shoot; bud; germinal disk (in an egg)
sunlight; sunshine; sunbeams
implementation (e.g. of a system); materialization; materialisation; realization; realisation; actualization
other than; except for; aside from; apart from; save for
not yet known; unknown; strange
few decades; many decades; several decades
encounter; being confronted with (e.g. difficulty); meeting with (e.g. accident)
to meet fortuitously (e.g. running into an old friend); to meet by chance; to happen across
happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing
from time immemorial; ancient; time-honoured; time-honored
crookedness; bending; indentation; curvature; flexion
range of vision; field of vision
an order of magnitude higher; off by a digit; in a different league; unbelievable; incomparable; unimaginable
unprecedented; never seen before
civilized person; civilized people
destructive power; destructive energy; destructive force
passion; enthusiasm; zeal
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
one's way back; one's way home
parting; separation; farewell
(not) in the slightest; (not) at all
commander-in-chief; supreme commander
place; situation; position; location
Mimasaka (former province located in the northeast of present-day Okayama Prefecture)
being under military occupation
to alternate; to take turns
plot; ulterior motive; thing; article; penis
until now; so far; up to the present
sudden; abrupt; rapid; sharp; drastic; radical
to move (house); to transfer (department); to change the target of interest or concern; to elapse (passage of time); to be permeated by a colour or scent; to be infected
reaching a stopping place; settling down (before the next stage); getting to a point where one can rest; one paragraph
humanity; civilization; civilisation; culture