as soon as possible; as quickly as possible; speedily; without delay; ASAP
leaving hospital; discharge from hospital
obstruction; check; hindrance; prevention; impediment; interdiction
twenty-first day of the month; twenty-one days
power; might; authority; influence
scribbling; scrawl; hasty writing
symbol; code; sign; notation
to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember
first anniversary of a person's death
tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability
expression in writing; written representation; notation; writing on the surface (e.g. an address on an envelope); inscribing on the face
August; eighth month of the lunar calendar
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state
suffering (as a result of maltreatment)
breaking off; snapping off; suddenly stopping
not knowing when to let go (give up, etc.); unwilling to resign; having lingering attachment; regretful
(dying) suddenly; (breaking) brittly; with a snap; softly and swellingly
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
to leave a note or document behind; to leave half-written; to leave out
to beat; to attack (an enemy); to do away with; to finish off
hand luggage; hand baggage
to grow; to grow up; to be good at; to excel in
(corporate) bankruptcy; insolvency; commercial failure; failed business
walking around at night; night travel; night train
elopement; running away with a lover
cultivator; farm tractor; tiller
doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion
disinheritance; disowning
the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation
the past is the past; let bygones be bygones
to begin to get dark; to begin to set (the Sun)
outskirts (of a town); edge (of a town); just outside the city limits
still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less
considerable; formidable; tremendous; really something else; exceptional; impressive
as if it were about oneself
refined; genteel; graceful; decent
relieved; refreshed; frank; candid; easy-going