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soon; shortly; nearly; almost

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disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful

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to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert

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particular; special; (not) particularly; (not) especially

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to head towards; to direct one's steps to

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to be effective; to be fruitful; to be worthwhile; to be worth; to be rewarded; to pay off

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just now; a little while back; a short time ago

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cannot avoid doing; cannot help but (do); is compelled to do; (feel) obliged to (do); has to do

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bookshop; bookstore

3

bookstore; bookshop; publisher; main building

1

assortment; product lineup

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bookshelves; bookshelf; bookcase

1

staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock, etc.)

1

shopping basket; market basket

1

book; publication

1

to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

1

to pay the bill; to settle an account

2

to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

1

merchant's home; rented home; store; shop

1

outside of; not covered by

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children's book

1

westward trip; trip to the West

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account; history; chronicle; Kojiki; Records of Ancient Matters

1

to be absorbed in reading

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free and uncontrolled; behaving with abandon; freewheeling

1

naivete; simplicity; innocence

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to be born (with); to be born (to be); to be destined

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now that; since; so long as; because

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Sanzouhoushi

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everybody; every last one of them; all

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central; main; just (done); freshly (baked); counter for consecutive losses

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witch

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princess; spoiled girl; hothouse flower; glue

2

prison; jail; gaol

1

at first; in the beginning; originally

2

conversion; reform; correcting someone's conduct

1

to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with

1

cover (of a book, magazine, etc.); binding; appearing on the cover of a magazine

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teary eyes

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strange; wonderful; weird; outrageous; mysterious

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(book) illustration

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to attract notice; to catch the eye; to stand out

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Edward

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Leigh (Britain); Ri; Li; Lie

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creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright

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picture book

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candy

2

to hold (in one's hand); to take (into one's hand); to own; to obtain

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at full speed; as fast as one's legs can carry one

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to sit down hard; to sink down to the floor

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