short sword; dagger; stiletto; hour hand (of a clock)
errand; mission; messenger; bearer; familiar spirit; use
occasionally; once in a while; now and then; rarely; seldom
bow (weapon); archery; bow (for a violin, etc.)
well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext
name; given name; first name
middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years
pig (Sus scrofa domesticus); pork; fatso; fatty
monkey-like face (e.g. protruding ears); simian features
succession; continuation; series; sequence
to tease; to make fun of; to poke fun at; to make a crack about; to chaff; to kid
to have a cramp; to twitch; to stiffen (of a face, expression); to freeze; to shrink (of skin, due to a scar); to tauten
though; notwithstanding; although
to be silent; to say nothing
all members; all hands; everyone; everybody; whole crew
tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation
first of all; at once; right away; for now; for the time being
leader; reader; reading book; reader (i.e. someone who reads); microreader; dotted line (in printing)
arm; skill; efforts; ability
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
moment by moment; hour by hour
scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer
to turn towards; to point
to put oneself on guard; to stand ready; to square off
self-proclaimed; self-professed; professing oneself to be; calling oneself; first person
history of; experience of
to get tired; to become exhausted; to become worn out; to become battered (from long use); to get tired of (doing); to get fed up with
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation
general; popular; common; typical
what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
within; inside of; less than
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow
typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model
at a young age; while still young
funny; comical; humorous; ridiculous; silly; absurd
to be reflected; to harmonize with (harmonise); to come out (photo); to be projected; to be displayed (on a screen)