important person; influential figure; big shot; big thing; big one; big game
to descend; to stoop; to degrade oneself; to be reduced to
naginata; polearm with a curved single-edged blade (similar to a glaive); naginata; martial art of wielding the naginata
tidal hour; right time; favourable opportunity (favorable)
rescue; extricate; reclaim; deliverance
plan; trick; plot; stratagem; scheme; trap
confinement; imprisonment; incarceration
person standing watch; guard duty
appears to be; apparently
sword; blade; single stroke
to slay; to cut down (a foe)
to rush into; to surge into; to crowd into
to be found; to be discovered
to be sacked; to be dismissed
though; notwithstanding; although
to keep; to preserve; to hold; to last; to endure; to keep well (food)
close associate; close aide; brains-truster
to stay on; to remain; to hold out; to stop (doing); to give up
one arm; one's right-hand man; one's right hand
back (esp. of a building, etc.); rear; behind
erasure; denial; obliteration; ignoring (an opinion)
group; party; team; squad; section
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
to kick the bucket; to drop dead; to die; to be pooped; to be exhausted; to be knackered
to be tired of looking at
(undesirable but) inseparable relationship
another person; other people; unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood); outsider; stranger
luxurious; magnificent; extravagant; sumptuous
expressly; especially; taking the trouble (to do); intentionally; deliberately
murder; killing; murderer
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to filch; to snatch; to steal (an idea, work, etc.); to plagiarize; to arrest; to nab
equipping; installing; fitting; mounting; putting on
heave-ho!; one-two-three heave!
heigh-ho; heave-ho; la-la
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
to climb; to clamber (over, up); to scramble (up); to scale; to claw one's way up
to break; to tear; to pierce; to split; to burst
last ray of hope; only hope