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both banks (of a river)

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preparations; preliminary arrangements; spade work; mise en place; groundwork

1

cost

1

calculation; computation

1

dragon god; dragon king; naga

14

to live (of animals); to inhabit; to nest

3

to enter; to go into; to meddle (in); to interfere (in); to go deeply (into an issue); to delve deeper (into)

1

genuine; real; authentic; full-scale; full-blown; all-out

2

meaningless; pointless

1

tedious; boring; being fed up with

1

to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on

5

the prospects look brighter; there is hope of accomplishing (something)

1

well done; good job

1

great joy; delight; jubilation

1

sinking; foundering; getting dead drunk; having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties; staying in one place for a long time

1

sincerely; earnestly; wholeheartedly; repeatedly; over and over; again and again

1

to do (something negative); to make (a blunder); to commit (an error); to eat (up); to drink

1

shovel; spade; scoop

2

riverbank; riverside

4

stone; rock; jewel; precious stone; flint (in a lighter); (round) game piece

23

earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)

4

to scoop; to ladle out; to trip up (e.g. someone's legs)

1

one by one; each; every; at intervals of

3

to load (with goods, cargo); to put on board; to stow aboard

2

heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling, atmosphere, etc.); serious; gloomy

1

rag; old cloth; tattered clothes; ragged clothes; fault (one is trying to hide); defect

1

downstream; lower reaches of a river; lower classes

4

arrangement; preparations; search (by police)

1

bothersome; tiresome; bother to do

1

old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago

1

effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)

6

to be visible; to be clear; to be evident; to be certain

1

several days later

1

several hundred; hundreds (of)

6

to cut up; to cleave; to spare (time, money, etc.); to use part of something; (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye

2

to leave (behind); to leave (undone); to not finish; to save; to set aside; to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death)

6

four people

10

both sides

1

valley floor; bottom of a gorge; bottom of a ravine

1

to go upstream; to go up (a river); to go back (to the past or origin); to date back (to); to trace back (to)

5

human wave attack; human wave tactics; throwing people at a problem

1

rower; oarsman

1

bare rock; rock surface; rock face

2

exposure; laying bare; exposure; (media) exposure; appearance (on TV, in magazines, etc.)

1

dots; spots; bit by bit; little by little; here and there; scattered

1

to build; to construct

2

settlement; village; community; (bacterial) colony

21

to hold one's breath (in fear, anxiety, etc.)

1

to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)

4

Sirs; Mesdames; around (the time that, etc.); about

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