bounds; limits; boundary fence (esp. of horse-riding ground)
putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage
lonely person; someone who easily succumbs to loneliness
(just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine)
careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent
accompanying; being accompanied by; going with
a little; a bit; just a minute; for a moment; somewhat; rather
unveiling; debut; introduction
magnificent; grand; fair; square; grandly; boldly
to follow with one's gaze; to follow with the eyes
with a glitter; with a sparkle; brand new; shiny and new
drainage; draining; pumping out (water); displacement
skipping out; cutting class; truancy; procrastination
severe; harsh; stringent; rigorous; strict; unfair
favorable reception; good reputation; popularity
leisure time; idle moment
fearfully; timidly; cautiously; nervously
most of all; extremely; supremely
to have excess momentum (from going too fast, using too much force, etc.); to get carried away; to go overboard; to overdo (something)
to put on (one's head); to wear; to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.); to pour (water, etc.) on oneself; to bear (e.g. someone's debts, faults, etc.); to take (blame); to overlap (e.g. sound or color)
to be transparent; to show through
water; (drinking) water; night entertainment business; nightlife worker; racy; titillating
pipe; tube; channels, official or otherwise; (business) connections; tobacco pipe
(stand to) attention!; standing at attention
hosing down; drainage; discharge of water; spraying with water
prank; practical joke; horseplay; mischievous trick
to fall to one's knees; to go down on one's knees (e.g. to express respect)
to stand in the way; to bar someone's way; to block the way
to fling; to throw off (clothes); to kick off (boots)
to join (hands); to take (each other's hands); to scramble for; to struggle for; to pay attention to; to take notice of
to jostle; to shove and push; to struggle with one another
to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy
pinioning; binding arms behind the back
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext
before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later
to amass; to accumulate; to store; to leave unpaid
to suffer; to receive (kindness, rebuke, support); to sustain (damage)
dozens; scores of; decades
to look down (on); to condescend (to)
to lift (a person) in one's arms; to help (a person) sit up
art of self-defense (defence)