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waist

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pretending not to know; pretending not to recognize someone (recognise); feigning ignorance; playing innocent

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Needham

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Iggy

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to keep to oneself (secret, etc.)

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picking on somebody smaller than oneself; bullying the weak

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to be blissful; to be very happy

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primly; with one's nose in the air; smugly

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unable to finish (on time, etc.); unbearable; intolerable; beyond endurance

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to trust to luck

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to leave for home

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to have a guilty conscience; to have (something) lie heavy on one's conscience

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sleeping alone

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to feign ignorance; to play dumb

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having good eyesight

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ascending staircase

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silk; silk cloth

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to be distracted

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to lean over (someone); to bend over; to lean on; to weigh on one; to bear (heavily) on one; to lie on one

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endurance contest; test of endurance

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to be ordered (to do)

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to become conscious; to recover one's senses; to snap out of it

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to sew together

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to shorten one's life

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how it came about; how it originated; how it happened; the origins of the imbroglio

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simple diet; plain food; simple food; frugal meal

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to yell; to bawl out

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to have a cramp

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hoop (of a barrel, bucket, etc.)

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half asleep and half awake; trance; dream and reality

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curt; blunt; brusque

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tight-lipped; able to keep a secret

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near relative

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deceiving; cheating; fooling

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to draw around (e.g. a curtain); to drag around; to take (someone) around; to parade around; to order about; to lead

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left utterly helpless; have no one to turn to; unapproachable

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to demand gratitude; to make a favour of something; to remind of a favour done to someone; to emphasize the favour one has done

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to cancel; to call off

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portrait

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coquetry

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to make (somewhere) one's final home; to make (a place) one's final resting place; to do (something) for the rest of one's life; to devote (the rest of) one's life to (something)

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Walter

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weaving; weaver

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absentmindedly; vacantly; carelessly

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to authorize

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tunic

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regulars; regular soldiers

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one elbow

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to convey (a message, e.g. to one's superior); to communicate; to pass on; to pass along

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close call; narrow escape

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