to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)
movement; move; motion; trend; development; change
(surprise) attack; assault; raid; charge
let me humbly say; most humbly; with all due respect
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
to go through; to pass through; to struggle through; to get through (difficulties, danger, etc.); to escape (through the cordon)
time after time; countless times; many a time; dozens of times
no sleep or rest; working day and night
to go past; to pass; to pass by
to hit; to run into; to light on; to strike into; to come against; to deadlock
to go through; to pierce; to run through (e.g. a river through a city); to pass through; to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out
the country; countryside; rural districts; cultivated land; fields
mountain range; mountain belt
wood construction; woodworking; (arch.) gardener
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (someone's) side
to go down and stand; to alight; to get down
to rock; to shake; to swing
what would (you) do?; what to do about it
(within a) territory; domains
to set foot into; to enter; to step inside; to cross the threshold
dirty things (dishes, laundry, etc.)
basket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage
to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on
the rounds of tradesmen going door to door; route man; door-to-door tradesman; thief taker; secret policeman
here and there; in twos and threes; sporadically; now and then; from time to time; occasionally
guard; sentinel; garrison
protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
neighborhood; neighbourhood; vicinity; environs; surrounding area; district
leading; prominent; eminent; counting on one's fingers
neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
foreign enemy; outside invader
to defend against; to protect against; to prevent; to avert; to avoid
daytime; during the day; Japan and China; Japanese-Chinese; Sino-Japanese
going around; patrol; round; tour
royal capital; imperial capital
several hundred; hundreds (of)
poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow
river; stream; River; the ... river
discovery; detection; finding
dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
agricultural land; farmland