rapid succession (e.g. questions)
query; interrogation; enquiry; question; inquiry
to chide; to rebuke; to reprove
at that time; in those days; at that moment; then
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
young man; youth; lad; servant boy; young shopboy
wandering samurai; soldier of fortune; brigand; mountain-dwelling robber
company; lot; bunch; troupe; company (of musicians)
absorption; suction; attraction
both; both sides; both parties
covert action; covert operations
to be temperate in; to refrain; to make notes; to jot down (e.g. phone number); to be in preparation for; to be in waiting for
one's daughter and heiress
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
patriarch; head of a family
to flow out; to stream out; to pour out; to gush forth; to leak; to ooze out
true state; actual condition; reality
repetitious; long-winded; heavy (taste); (overly) rich; gaudy (colour, design, etc.); loud
to be delirious with fever; to have a feverish dream; (fig.) to be crazy about something
internal organs; intestines; viscera
steam; vapour; vapor; steamboat; steam locomotive
to feel hot; to flush; to burn