occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
entrance; entry; gate; approach; mouth
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
to catch sight of; to come into view; to happen to see
to be helpful; to be useful
anyone; anybody; everyone; whoever
not less than; ... and over; beyond (e.g. one's expectations); above; above-mentioned; aforementioned
to omit; to leave out; to exclude; to curtail; to save; to cut down
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
laborer; labourer; blue-collar worker
misfortune; bad luck; unlucky year; critical year; (arch.) smallpox
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
this way (of doing); this method; this sort (of thing); this type
control; management (e.g. of a business)
one way or another; in many ways; in various ways
worry; care; anxiety; mental exhaustion
gender; distinction of sex; sex
to pay attention to another's needs; to attend to; to fuss about; to take into consideration
servant; manservant; menial
by any standard; (not) even as flattery
to be very far apart from; to be remote; to be quite different from
(physical) appearance (of a person); one's face and figure
character; personality; (fictional) character; letter; character
stingy; cheap; very frugal
to be useful; to be helpful; to serve the purpose
remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted
(as alike as) two peas in a pod
in the belly; in one's heart of hearts
just barely; only just; at the very limit; at the last moment
whim; caprice; whimsy; fickle; moody; uneven temper
to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
for a moment; for a minute; for a while; for some time; for the time being; for now
in a daze; absent-mindedly; dimly; hazily; with a roar (of flames); with a whoosh
fool; idiot; dotage; senility; touched in the head (from); out of it (from)
to stare fixedly at; to fix one's gaze on; to make sure of; to set one's eyes on (e.g. the future); to focus on