to sit cross-legged; to rest on one's laurels
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
being in charge of (esp. a class or subject); taking charge of; class teacher; homeroom teacher; form teacher
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
person in charge (including a supervisory role for other staff); person responsible for ...; responsible party; supervisor; manager
young; youthful; immature; green; low (number); small
to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
counter for books; volume
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely
city library; municipal library; public library
to take someone (to some place); to take someone along; to lead someone away
once; one time; exclusively; only; alone
on and after; as from; hereafter; thereafter; since
shopping; purchased goods
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
(a) little; somewhat; somehow
trembling; getting nervous; excited; thrilled
keenly; deeply; calmly; quietly; fixedly (e.g. gazing, staring)
to line up; to set up; to enumerate; to itemize; to be equal (to); to compare well (with)
various; varied; diverse; all sorts of
spine (of book); binding (of book)
one by one; one each; one at a time
one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume
one by one; each; every; at intervals of
(not) ever; (not) by any means; (not) in the least; (not) in any way; (not) at all
whole life; a lifetime; all through life; (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life
intended for ...; oriented towards ...; aimed at ...
love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections
to entwine; to twine around; to coordinate (with); to arrest
to reel; to wind; to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to count (e.g. the days); to open one-by-one
vague; ambiguous; shady; disreputable; fuzzy
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
sports ground; sports oval