by all means; at any cost; whether (one is) willing or not; willingly or unwillingly; on no account; by no means
thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
skin; hide; rind; peel; shell; sheath
that kind of; that way; that move; that trick; that game
with a slap; with a pop; without batting an eyelid; generously; cutesy suffix applied to names
opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor
carapace; shell; 1st in rank; grade A; instep; back of hand
to be surprised; to be astonished
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...
to bring; to take; to bring about
injury; wound; mistake; accident; loss
to be a matter of life or death
one's own strength; one's own efforts; self-salvation
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
desktop; desk-top; tabletop; after-dinner speech
to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed
situation; (present) state of affairs; circumstances
naturally; in due course; by itself; of its own accord
growth; development; one's early life; upbringing; personal history
to coil around; to follow about; to be related to; to concern; to be associated with
-ish; -like; resembling; appearing to be; seeming to be
to cross (legs or arms); to link (arms); to put together; to construct; to braid; to plait; to grapple
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
to reach back into one's memory; to search one's mind; to recall
strategy; stratagem; trick; scheme; plot
to be(come) intertwined; to be entangled
to sweep; to brush; to clean; to gather silkworms
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else
blue; azure; green; pale; gray; unripe
fine weather; fair weather
particular; special; exceptional; particularly; especially; exceptionally
to be injured; to sustain a wound
as if nothing had happened
morning assembly (at a company, school, etc.); morning gathering
complexion; one's colour; one's color; countenance; expression; one's face
right on the heels of yesterday, then today ...; soon after something, and yet now ...
to get better; to get well; to recover (from an illness); to be cured; to be restored; to heal
to work too hard; to try too hard; to strain oneself; to overdo it; to go too far
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)