to return; to come home; to leave (of a guest, customer, etc.); to get home; to get to home plate
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
(not) particularly; (not) especially; (not) specially; separately; apart; additionally
disliking; hating; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that
habit (usu. a bad one); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
militant (faction, group, person, etc.); hardliner who favors force over compromise; hawk
(juvenile) delinquent; Yankee; Yank; American
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
quickly; promptly; immediately; indifferently; coldly
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
pout; displeasure; ill humor; ill humour; sullenness
to put out one's hand; to extend one's arm; to reach (for); to try one's hand at (something new)
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
sunlight; rays of the Sun
field of vision; visibility; view; visual field; (one's) ken
to close one's eyes partly; to squint; to smile with one's whole face; to smile sweetly (at); to look fondly (at)
glaringly; dazzlingly; blazingly
August; eighth month of the lunar calendar
reflection; reflected light; reflected heat; glare
to cease; to stop; to be over
cicada; locust; small-sized pulley
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
right opposite; directly across; just in front of; face to face
brightly colored; vivid; colorful; colourful; brilliant; radiant
light (color, taste, etc.); faint (e.g. smell); pale; faint (feeling, hope, etc.); fleeting; slight
pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)
cumulonimbus; gigantic columns of clouds (in summer); thunderhead
the heavens; the skies; celestial sphere; heavenly realm; deva realm
to rise (of a building, mountain, etc.); to tower; to soar
for a moment; for a minute; for a while; for some time; for the time being; for now
there; the spot; the place; then and there; on the spot; immediately