flame; blaze; fire; attack; aggression
invasion; incursion; raid; aggression; intrusion; trespass
to rush into; to surge into; to crowd into
intercept; interception; counter-attack
tensely; tightly; erectly; intuitively; instinctively; with a burst
around there; near there; or thereabouts; or so; such a matter; such a thing
reservation; putting on hold; deferment
reputation; respectability
fighting back; returning fire; counter-attack; responding to an attack; accepting a challenge
to leave one's seat; to temporarily excuse oneself (from a meeting, etc.); to step outside; to be away (from one's desk, etc.)
to be overawed; to be overpowered; to lose the mental battle
young person; youth; young
even; even if; even though; because of; on the grounds that
how about ...?; I wonder; I don't know
tenacious; tough; enduring; dogged; headstrong; stubborn
investigation (e.g. into someone's guilt); questioning; pressing; catching up; overtaking
long ago; already; a long time ago
to become red; to redden; to blush
to collapse into; to flop onto
to name; to call; to christen; to term
secret techniques (of an art or skill); inner mysteries; essence; quintessence; heart
weapons; arms; fighting with swords; sword fight
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
violent explosion; bursting
peculiarity; uniqueness; characteristic
odour; odor; scent; aura; whiff; smacks of ...
commonplace; ordinary; typical; ubiquitous; run-of-the-mill; mundane
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; clumsy; unskilled
isolation; cut off; blockade; quarantine; interception; deprivation
to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind
to smell sweet; to be fragrant
treatment; service; handling (of a machine, tool, etc.); operation; treating as; treating like
trump card; ace up one's sleeve; secret weapon
being reluctant to give out (pay, provide, etc.); giving out grudgingly
to shoot or fire off an arrow
going backward; turning back; backtracking; retrogression; relapse; returning to a bad state
about; concerning; as to; regarding
to be jealous of; to be envious of; to envy
aloneness; loneliness; solitude
to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size
to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
staringly; fixedly; unblinkingly