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as if; as though

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to catch one's breath; to gulp; to have one's breath taken away; to gasp

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roughly; approximately; round about; cursorily; briefly; quickly

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to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of

1

concrete; definite; specific; material; substantial

2

ninety; 90

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eight; 8

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famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)

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20 years old; (arch.) twenty

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at that time; in those days

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sudden illness

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decisively; decidedly; boldly; precisely; exactly

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nose

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illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane

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Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)

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large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university

5

abundant harvest; bumper crop

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remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively

1

three years

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Queen Mother; Empress Dowager

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falling from a horse

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bone fracture

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four years

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bloodless revolution

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monarchy; imperial rule

1

abolition; repeal

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that day; the very same day

2

daytime; during the day; time from sunrise until sunset; diurnal period

2

exactly; precisely; closely; tightly; properly; without fail

1

depiction; description; portrayal

1

king; ruler; tycoon; magnate; king (of the senior player)

1

gardener

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to end one's life; to end one's days; to die

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autumn; fall

1

heavy rain

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heavy flooding; disastrous flood; deluge; great flood (sent by a deity); flood myth

1

to thin out (plants, seedlings, crops, etc.); to cull; to run on a curtailed schedule; to cut down; to kill a newborn child (due to financial difficulties)

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number of characters; number of letters; word count

1

strangeness; abnormality; disorder

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water level

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twenty-five

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conflagration; fire

1

to burn; to get fired up

1

number; series of digits

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grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen

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shuddering; shivering; trembling; being horrified; being disgusted

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winter

3

citizen; resident; person; user (of a website, esp. as a collective, e.g. Twittersphere)

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to drift (to); to be washed ashore

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before very long; soon; someday; of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them

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