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to use to the full (one's voice, energy, etc.); to muster all of (one's strength, courage, etc.); to summon all of; to exert fully; to strain (one's voice)

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to grip; to grasp; to squeeze

1

bad; poor; inferior; delinquent; hoodlum; hooligan

1

to glare at; to scowl at

1

underhanded; unfair; makeshift; stopgap

1

connection; link; relationship

5

calculation; self-interest; selfishness

1

association; socializing; socialising; fellowship

7

to get over; to forget

1

anywhere; for all time; through thick and thin; come hell or high water; persistently; stubbornly

1

to stop (plug) one's ears

1

to draw (conclusion); to deduce; to derive

1

distinction; differentiation; discrimination; discrimination (against people)

1

glass; pane

1

division into equal parts; equal parts

2

wintry; very cold-looking (e.g. landscape); bleak (e.g. room, street); desolate; empty (of furnishings)

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Natsume Souseki (1867-1916)

4

complete works; complete collection; complete series

6

miner

2

19; nineteen

2

youth; young man

4

tangle; entanglement; snarl; complication; difficulties; trouble

1

to get fed up with; to get sick of; to become disgusted with

1

somewhere to go; place to go

1

tout; swindler; con-man; pimp

1

to meet (by chance); to come across; to run across; to encounter; to happen upon

1

coal mine; (coal) pit; colliery

2

construction camp; bunkhouse; workers' living quarters

1

mine (ore)

1

tunnel; (mining) gallery; level; shaft; pit

1

small; fine; detailed; stingy

2

labor; labour; toil; hardship

2

spirituality; spiritual nature

4

a long time (since the last time); first in a long time

4

to starve; to be famished; to be hungry; to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for

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to be fragrant; to give out a smell; to be enveloped in a smell; to be radiant; to be attractive

3

to set off to advantage; to bring into prominence; to support; to favor; to rouse (spirits); to march (a prisoner) off

1

to sew; to stitch; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)

1

desktop; desk-top; tabletop; after-dinner speech

1

to attract attention

1

vocal message; speech; statement; prologue at the start of a kabuki performance

1

standard; set; routine; decided

1

personal affairs; private matter; personal secret; privacy

1

this occasion; at this time; now

1

unreserved

1

inquisitiveness

3

astonishment; amazement; surprise; fright; shock

2

company; friendship; association; society; acquaintance

45

odd; strange; queer; peculiar

2

to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept

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