to reach the point where ...; to come to ...; to come to be that ...; to start to ...; to begin to ...
master; Your Lordship; My Lord; husband
aid; assistance; help; cheering; rooting (for); support
to keep company; to listen to; to associate with; to play against (e.g. a team); to take on (e.g. a rival)
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
candidate; contender; prospect; candidacy; candidature; nomination
to match; to be a match for; to rival; to equal; to compare with
practice game; practice match
praiseworthy; commendable; laudable; strange (person); weird; odd
natural virtue; personal virtue
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
to satisfy (conditions, one's appetite, etc.); to meet (e.g. demands); to fulfill; to fill (e.g. a cup); to pack; to supply
prohibition; inhibition; ban
accurate; correct; precise; exact
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
piling shame on top of shame
to cling to ... in tears; to beg ... in tears; to appeal; to throw oneself on someone's mercy
with a burble; hollow (sounding); holey; full of holes or dents; viciously beating; hitting and kicking repeatedly
hour; o'clock; (specified) time; when ...; during ...
blunder; fault; error; mistake; failure; disgrace
tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); destruction; annulment; cancellation; reversal (of an original ruling on appeal); quashing
ugly man; (arch.) strong, brawny man
stout-hearted; firm; courageous; brave; tough
to behave; to conduct oneself; to act; to treat (someone) to (food or drink); to entertain (e.g. to lunch)
front and rear; before and after; order; sequence; consequences; context
to be flustered; to lose one's presence of mind
to grasp at straws; to resort to desperate measures
assistance; help; aid; support; reinforcement
to bear up in tragedy; to stand pain well; to hold one's temper; to put up (with something); (lit.) to clench one's teeth
a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago
power; might; authority; spirits; vigor; vigour
whereabouts; place; location; place where one belongs; where one fits in; place where one can be oneself
victory or defeat; match; contest; game
scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer
to push aside; to push one's way through
to raise one's hand; to surrender; to raise one's hand to someone (as a threat to strike); to become better (at something); to improve; to throw one's hat in the ring
to introduce oneself; to announce oneself (e.g. as the person sought); to come forward (e.g. as a witness, with a claim, etc.)
appraisal; estimation; evaluation; setting prices
to look down on; to condescend
statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal
naming; nominating; designating; calling on; asking for; requesting
everything turning out fine; the whole thing being settled
approval; acceptance; recognition; private seal; signet
disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
equality; equal; same rights; same rank; equivalence
association; link; connection; pledge (esp. for marriage); promise
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)