to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach
solid; robust; tight; taut; shrewd; calculating
securing; obtaining; ensuring; belay; belaying
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow; anyhow; one way or another
to struggle; to writhe; to wriggle; to act frantically; to make desperate efforts
uninhabited area; acting inhumanly; inhuman person; nonhuman life (usu. sentient)
to shake and untangle; to shake free from
(opening of) a wound; (mouth of a) wound; cut
to suck up; to pump up; to siphon off (profits, etc.); to exploit; to take up others' opinions, hopes, etc.
kiss; squeak (as in the sound made by mice); sound of liquid being sucked up
to pour into; to wash down; to insert (e.g. into a data stream)
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
to become coarse (e.g. of a texture); to turn rough; to turn gritty; to become sandy
tongue; tongue-like object; clapper (of a bell); talon (of a lock)
surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality
to dip out; to scoop up; to ladle out
bright red; deep red; flushed (of face); downright (e.g. lie); complete; utter
injury; wound; mistake; accident; loss
first meeting; first interview with
and yet; though; when; in spite of
unclean; dirty; unsanitary; indecent; dirty (story, money, etc.); obscene
continuation; continuance; going on; resuming
to separate; to part; to divide; to keep apart
mouth; lips; shape of the mouth; near an entrance; vicinity of an entrance
to become confused (disconcerted, disorganized, disorganised); to be flustered; to panic; to hurry; to rush; to hasten
to reach one's ears; to come to one's knowledge; to hear about; to learn of (by chance)
fast (walking); quick; brisk; quick (passing of time); rapid; swift
to leave; to depart; to take one's leave
to detain; to check; to restrain
to begin to run; to start running; to break into a run
tired feeling; feeling of exhaustion; sense of fatigue; fatigability
to be blown off; to blow off; to blow away; to vanish; to disappear
leaving something where it is; abandoning something
(I) will; (I) shall; let's; (I) wonder (if); might it be (that); hey
to suddenly understand (esp. on basis of experience or memory); to come to mind; to recall (in a flash); to be reminded of; to call to mind; to think of