preservation; retainment; keeping
cane; walking stick; staff; wand
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
to advance; to move forward; to carry forward (plans, work, etc.); to proceed with; to raise; to elevate
to gain time; to play for time; to buy time
to respond; to answer; to meet (e.g. demands, expectations); to affect; to take a toll; to strike home
regret; remorse; repentance; contrition
indescribable; having no way to express
hard; tough; hardware; hard disk
grand; heroic; sublime; fierce
dependability; credibility; coefficient of confidence
to hold; to carry; to embrace (in one's arms)
degree of relative priority
God; god; ace; king; superior person
(not) in any way; in no way; at all; terribly; awfully; hopelessly
I fear that it's likely that; with all due respect
to weaken; to grow weak; to be downcast; to be dejected; to be troubled; to be at a loss
torture to death; torment to death
(death from) starvation; starving to death
cruel; brutal; savage; barbarous
pieces; scraps; disconnected
low rank; lower position; subordinate position; lower order (e.g. byte)
a bit better than; not much more than; not much different from
to understand; to appreciate; to interpret
to scurry home; to run home; to fly back
to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat); to be very drunk
fear; dread; fright; willies
virile; tough; masculine; intense
rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud; turning over in one's mind; thinking over something; pondering
legitimate; orthodox; traditional
(art of) fencing; swordsmanship
foothold; footing; toehold; stepping stone
uncommon; rare; extraordinary; matchless
great swordsman; master fencer
as you were; return to your original position!; er, rather
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
to kill (a human) using a blade (sword, machete, knife, etc.); to slice (off); to lop (off); to cut (off)
to be bloodcurdling; to be ghastly
since some time ago; for some time; for quite a while
to freeze (in fear, surprise, etc.); to cower; to flinch; to shrink up; to shrink; to shrivel up