understanding person; supporter
childhood friend; friend from infancy; old playmate
one's personal belongings; one's vicinity; one's daily life; everyday necessities
continuing one's education into university
finding employment; getting a job
these days; nowadays; now; at present; recently; lately
property; fortune; assets
within a marriage; between husband and wife; conjugal
obedient; submissive; tame; slavish
second marriage; remarriage
chastity; virtue; fidelity; feminine modesty
being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation
large staple driven into two pieces of wood to hold them together; clamp; tie (metaphorical, e.g. something that binds two people together); latch; lock
hearsay; rumor; rumour; report
sentimental; emotional; maudlin; mawkish
echo; reverberation; spirit of a tree; tree spirit
to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around
after a while; a little while later; shortly afterward; after a brief interval
inconsistency; discord; conflict; discrepancy; contradiction; failure
to go mad; to lose one's mind; to get out of order; to go amiss; to go wrong (of a plan or expectation, etc.); to fall through
ringleader; main culprit; main cause; source
(even) if only a little; to some extent; in the slightest way
jumble; hodgepodge; mishmash; disorderly mixture
every ...; every other ...; at intervals of ...; with ... in between; ... apart
mine (ours) for the taking; something under one's full control
supporter; adherent; proponent; backer
to badger; to pester; to beg
lines of the palm (in palm reading); appearance of the palm of the hand
semi-transparent; translucent
eyetooth; cuspid; canine (tooth); dogtooth
mechanism; machinery; trick; dodge; mechanical doll; string puppet
to swallow; to gulp down; to understand; to grasp; to engulf; to swallow up
ill-bred; vulgar; boorish
if it is not ...; if it does not ...