to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
inspection; examination; checking
to lend an ear; to hearken; to give an ear to; to listen carefully
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely
announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known
notice; attention; observation
world; society; people; the public
ignoring; disregarding; taking no notice of; refusing to comment on; turning a deaf ear to
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
stationing (e.g. of troops); garrison
military officer; naval officer
Germanic (people, language, culture, etc.)
predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy
private funds; own funds; private property
mystery; mysteriousness; secret
intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy
ironically enough; as irony would have it; in a nice little twist
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
ancient times; distant past; antiquity
to take into one's possession; to receive; to take into one's care (e.g. person, pet); to take custody of; to leave; to go away
one way or another; in many ways; in various ways
absurd; unreasonable; excessive; very; extremely; excessively
on the occasion of; at the time of
to look around; to survey
innumerable; countless; numberless
to wriggle; to squirm; to crawl like a worm
continuation; continuance; going on; resuming
to push aside; to brush aside
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence