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sidelong glance; short grain (paper)

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smile

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champion of justice; knight in shining armor; crime avenger; hero; super hero

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please!; I'm asking you; for heaven's sake

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gentle; peaceable; amicable; without fuss; simply

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to cling to; to embrace

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harmonious; intimate

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having vague fears; feeling alarmed; feeling gloomy (about the future); feeling apprehension

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sister complex; excessive attachment to one's sister; audio component system; stereo component system

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shuddering; shivering; trembling; being horrified; being disgusted

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person with an unhealthy romantic obsession

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to be disheartened; to be dejected; to be discouraged; suddenly (losing a lot of weight); looking emaciated; becoming very thin

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moss; short plants resembling moss (incl. other bryophytes, lichens, very small spermatophytes, etc.)

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pardon; forgiveness; forbearance

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please; somehow or other; one way or another

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prayer; supplication

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to grant (a request); to accept; to hear (a prayer); to comply with (a demand)

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desperate; hopeless

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camber

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at this juncture; after all this time; at this stage; now

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as one promised

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present continuous tense; present progressive form

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heavy concentration; overconcentration

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dispersion; breakup; variance; dispersion

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some days; several days

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to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on

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to see; to look; to watch; to try to

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just now; a moment ago

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to hold back (e.g. emotions); to rein in (e.g. a horse, unruly people); to get the better of; to control; to command

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far; distant; distant (past); remote (in time); distant (relationship or kinship); having little to do (with someone); far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.)

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three persons; three parties

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thought

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through; throughout; through (the good offices of); by way of

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to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort

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both ends; either end; both edges; double-mindedness; sitting on the fence

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like this; in this way; as you see

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to settle peacefully; to work out peacefully; to come to an amicable solution; to become reconciled

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total; complete; all-out; general; extensive; full-scale

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epilogue

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origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material

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period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness

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as; because; with; due to

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townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street

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once and for all; completely; spotlessly

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several days later

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situation report; status report; progress report

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correspondence; communication; transmission; news; signal; telecommunications

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chance meeting

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as one of

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to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to

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