patriarch; head of a family
to ill-treat; to bully; to torment; to be tough on (e.g. one's body); to treat harshly
arbitration; intercession; mediation
older brother; elder brother
to accept; to receive; to agree
cold (attitude); indifferent; unsympathetic; aloof
point of a spear; spearhead; focus (of one's attack, criticism, etc.); aim; force (of an argument); edge
surely; clearly; without a doubt; in all probability; no matter how one slices it; no matter how one looks at it
one's brother-in-law; stepbrother (elder)
to be unable to let pass unnoticed; to be unable to be indifferent; to be unable to just watch (without doing anything)
mallee (var. of eucalyptus)
kind; tender-hearted; compassionate
to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
unwillingly; grudgingly; shaking head in refusal (like a child); no!; no no!
in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run
malicious; ill-tempered; unkind
to cross one's mind; to occur to one
memories; recollections; reminiscence
to disappear into; to slip into; to be lost in; to be mixed up with
feeling of fellowship; fellow feeling
transition; change; progress; passing (of time)
to regain one's footing; to get back on one's feet; to recover; (of the market) to improve
doubting; questioning; being skeptical (of)
curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange
mimesis; mimicry; camouflage
to fish; to angle; to catch; to lure in; to tempt; to attract
imbalance; disproportion; disparity; mismatch; asymmetry
stern expression; severe expression; grim expression
to become pale; to turn pale
to pretend to be tough; to put on a brave front; to whistle in the dark; to bluff
raging fire; conflagration
exhaustion; consumption; using up; dissipation; waste
speech and conduct; words and deeds
funny; comical; humorous; ridiculous; silly; absurd
advance warning; previous notice; announcement; herald; harbinger; forerunner