muscle stiffness (esp. in shoulders)
internal organs; intestines; viscera
gynecology department; gynecology
action; operation; effect; function
use; application; employment; utilization; utilisation
warm; mild; (pleasantly) hot; considerate; kind; genial
gallery; corridor; art gallery; upper gallery (in a theatre); spectators (esp. at a golf tournament)
myopia; shortsightedness; nearsightedness
to get mended; to be repaired; to return to normal; to recover (e.g. one's temper); to be corrected; to get put right; to come right
denial; negation; negation (logic); NOT operation
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
in every nook and corner; from A to Z; from head to toe; from cover to cover
to glance at; to look at; to scan; to run one's eyes over
cased; boxed; precious; cherished; girl who has been sheltered from the world; one's special talent
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
off the mark; off base; misdirected; irrelevant
to decide; to determine; to establish; to lay down; to bring peace (to); to make peaceful
to lure out of; to decoy out of; to drive to (tears, sleep, etc.); to evoke (sympathy, etc.); (arch.) to abduct; (arch.) to entice out of
blunder; miss; slip; oversight
conspiracy; collusion; complicity
to put in order; to arrange; to get ready; to prepare; to work out (e.g. business deal); to arrange (e.g. marriage)
crunching; chewing or crushing something hard; hard and crunchy; very skinny; emaciated
to pull; to draw; to string (lines); to run (cable); to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve); to drag; to haul
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
just now; a moment ago; this very minute
successive; consecutive; back-to-back; one after another
of uncertain meaning; ambiguous; cryptic; nonsensical; incomprehensible; perplexing
to spill; to fall out of; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)
to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
league; federation; union; alliance
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892 collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle)
compilation; editing; recording
piece (e.g. poetry); poem; essay; book; story
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host
noon; midday; daytime; lunch
organization; organisation; structure; construction; system (e.g. railroad, transport, party, etc.); tissue; texture (of a rock)
to fabricate; to invent; to make up (a story); to cobble up; to put together in a hurry