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Porthos

2

originator; pioneer; inventor; progenitor; primogenitor; founder of a family line

1

unread

1

winning percentage

3

source (e.g. of a river); headwaters; origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)

1

beneficial; profitable; useful; helpful; instructive

1

indispensable; essential; requisite; required; compulsory; necessary

2

power; motive power; dynamic force; three-phase electricity

1

find it against one's conscience (to do); too proud (to do)

1

inexperienced; immature; green; grassy-smelling; smelling of raw vegetation

1

to hide; to keep to oneself

1

to stake; to risk; to bet; to wager

1

fixed number; certain number; given number; definite number

1

ordinary; average; common; normal; like the average person; like most people

4

to have an ulterior motive; to have an axe to grind

1

ready with a rifle leveled

1

to take pains; to take time for someone; to do work for someone; to go to trouble for someone

1

one-way traffic

1

long-range

1

to emit; to spout; to spurt; to boil over

1

way out; means to escape; escape route

1

bearing; heading; point of the compass

1

two groups; two bands

2

indiscriminate shooting; random shooting; firing blindly

2

route; course; path; one's future course (e.g. after graduating high school)

1

gunfighter (esp. in the American Old West); gunslinger; gunman

3

hand game (e.g. rock-paper-scissors)

1

depth; deep place

6

assistance; support; subsidy; supplement; auxiliary; subsidiary

1

the most one can do; the best one can do; the best one can expect

1

fierce attack

1

demonstrative of one's worth; worthy of one's reputation; living up to one's name; bolstering one's reputation; enhancing one's prestige; winning one honour

1

dramatic (improvement); remarkable (difference); marked; (far) better; exceptional

1

plan to overcome an obstacle or break out of a deadlock; breakthrough solution

1

to have a tendency to; to be liable to; to have a touch of; to have a smack of

1

to lose a closely fought contest

1

to brave; to risk; to harm; to afflict; to desecrate; to profane

7

based on; built on; made from

1

to read (somebody's) thoughts; to guess what (someone) is thinking

1

smelling of mud or earth; unrefined; uncouth

7

feeble joke; bad pun

2

to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to interpose; to have between; to alienate; to estrange

1

out of bullets

1

loading (a firearm)

3

automatic pistol

2

breakdown; failure; damage; hurt; objection; protest

5

maintenance

1

cylinder

1

passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon); passage (of a bill, e.g. through parliament); carriage; passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); clearing

1

(one's) age

1