my goodness!; oh my!; oh dear!
to deliver; to forward; to send; to report; to notify; to file notice (to the authorities)
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
daytime; during the day; time from sunrise until sunset; diurnal period
common language; lingua franca; standard language (language variety understood throughout a country)
to look downwards (at); to lower one's gaze; to drop one's eyes
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat
big-shot; influential person; happy face; smiling face; sympathetic attitude; getting along with
begging for one's life; pleading for one's life
to accompany; to go hand in hand with; to be consequent upon; to be accompanied by; to bring with; to take with
arranged; taken care of; settled; completed; finished
criminal; lawbreaker; wrongdoer; offender
back country; remote countryside
performance (at a party or banquet, etc.); side show; entertainment
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
to join forces; to cooperate
way to die; means of dying; quality of one's death
(death from) starvation; starving to death
I would rather; I would as lief do; strong preference
endurance; patience; perseverance; self-control; self-restraint
within; inside of; less than
to leave as; to view as; to maintain the status quo
good-natured person; good person; (one's) lover; boyfriend; girlfriend
to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake
at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else
total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects
to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed
to fly away; to flee away; to scatter
before I knew it; next thing you know; when I came to
to become frightened; to be frightened (of); to be scared (of)
unworthy; unbecoming; improper
boasting; big talk; bombast; Australian English
ridgeline; lines of a mountain ridge
repulse; repelling (e.g. the enemy); driving back
to feel hot; to flush; to burn
good feeling; feeling good
basics; fundamentals; basis; foundation
mutual agreement; understanding; common consent
-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of
intensely; severely; strictly; tightly; compactly; closely