going down the road; travelling; lyric composition describing scenery a traveler sees on the way (traveller); eloping
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
far away; distant place; long ago; far back; by far
fear; horror; anxiety; concern; uneasiness; reverence
infancy; childhood; infant; child
grasp; catch; understanding
to end; to be finished; to die; to perish; to do utterly; to do completely
any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever
incarnation; impersonation; personification; avatar
pure; true; genuine; unmixed
even if; even though; even; too; whether ... or ...; no matter (what, where, who, etc.)
imagination; supposition; virtual; potential (enemy)
to spin; to make yarn; to spin (a tale); to assemble (e.g. words); to put together
charm; incantation; spell; magic formula
divine right (e.g. of kings)
mysterious bird; strange bird; eerie bird; monster that has taken the form of a bird
dead branch (or twig, etc.); withered branch
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest
mattress; mattress pad (under a futon)
all that one has; all that there is; the whole
clanging; empty; deserted
to rise to the surface; to come to the front; to emerge (e.g. from obscurity); to stand out (e.g. against a dark background)
clear; plain; distinct; obvious; evident; articulate
end (e.g. of report, document, paragraph, etc.)
to spring up; to leap to one's feet; to jump up and down
literally; to the letter; literal
eye; eyeball; (arch.) pupil and (dark) iris of the eye; (arch.) insight; (arch.) perceptivity; (arch.) look
look; glance; sight; summary; list; table
pronunciation; production of sound
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
according to; by (means of); due to; because of
illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault
to be on the brink of death