childhood friend; friend from infancy; old playmate
to take good care of; to treasure; to value; to hold dear; to prize; to cherish
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
hard to get; hard to come by
to wither (of flowers, dreams, etc.); to wilt; to droop; to shrivel; to fade (away); to sag
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
white paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
how long; how far; how much
difficult to ...; hard to ...
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose
in (of a ball, in tennis, etc.); inside the line; in; inside; enter here; enter
harsh (taste, feeling, etc.); acrid; sharp (language, question, etc.); biting; nasty; gross
vulgar; mean; base; coarse; crude
arrangement (music, objects, etc.); organization; adaptation
to cut apart (cloth, paper, etc.); to sever (ties); to break off (relationship); to cut off (enemy's retreat); to block (road, etc.)
the person in question; prominent figure; distinguished person; that person
to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family)
to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (as); to act (as); to conduct a religious service
regret; repentance; remorse
lying face down; upside down; prone
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent
to mourn; to lament; to be sorry; to regret; to repent
right beside; close to; nearby
moving (location, with the times, etc.); change; metastasis; spread; transition (e.g. phase transition); transfer (of learning)
to stick up (hair, etc.); to stand up straight; to stand up abruptly; to jump to one's feet; to stand in one place, doing nothing in particular; to stand around
to breathe while sleeping
to go away; to become more distant; to fade away; to be estranged
sense of smell; olfaction
defense; defence; protection
perception; intuition; the sixth sense
sharp sighted; easily awakened
transmission (e.g. news, chemical signals, electricity); communication; delivery; conveyance; transfer; relay
escape; flight; running away; elopement; fleeing
drama; play; powerful drug
direct connection; direct link
therefore; for that reason; such being the case
chicken; coward; scaredy-cat; chicken