calm; composed; cool; quiet
really (seem, appear, etc.); truly; evidently; in that way
to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
to compel; to force; to oblige
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
to believe implicitly; to believe firmly
heartbroken thoughts; heartrending grief; overwhelming sorrow
left hand; left-hand side; left-hand direction; (on) the left
minimum price; floor price
1,000,000; one million; million; many
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
to sell off; to sell completely
slave trade; white-slave trade; human trafficking
to become; to appear like; to have a touch of; to look like
broke; poor; short; skint; having no money
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person
to laugh at; to ridicule; to mock; to make fun of; to sneer at
at a loss for words; stumped for words
to have (someone) by the short hairs; to have something on (someone)
friend; ally; supporter; taking sides with; supporting; standing by
to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off
to put an end to something; to get something over with; to quit something one has been engaged in too long or to an excessive degree
to rummage through; to ransack (e.g. a drawer); to throw into confusion; to disrupt; to upset
none of your business!; don't bother me!; keep out of it!
control; check; restraint; inhibition
wife who lives elsewhere but regularly visits her husband
poison fang; sinister ways; crooked means; clutches
to burst (open); to break; to split
amount necessary to fill a container (e.g. cupful, spoonful, etc.); drink (usu. alcoholic); full; one squid, octopus, crab, etc.; one boat; fully; to capacity
number of times; frequency; count
remarkably; noticeably; considerably; appreciably
one or two; a few; small number
(on) one's own; (by) oneself
to catch one's breath; to gulp; to have one's breath taken away; to gasp
knit; knitted fabric; knitted garments; nit (unit of surface brightness equal to 1 candela per square meter)
contours of one's body; figure
to lay bare; to expose; to reveal
to catch sight of; to come into view; to happen to see