because of; owing to; due to
to care for (the sick); to nurse; to attend (someone's deathbed)
just one person; only one
in a daze; absent-mindedly; dimly; hazily; with a roar (of flames); with a whoosh
book; volume; this; present; main; head
to cram; to stuff; to jam; to squeeze; to compress; to pack
yes; yea; aye; (arch.) to be so
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was
Indian summer (around November); mild late autumn weather; mild late fall weather
to say; to be called; to do
seventh day of the month; seven days
company; friendship; association; society; acquaintance
the heat is off; things calm down; the excitement dies down
self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself
sensation; feeling; tendency; propensity
to keep company; to look after; to entertain; to play (a game) with
mistress; kept woman; concubine; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
stork (esp. the Oriental stork, Ciconia boyciana)
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
these days; nowadays; present day; at this time (of the day)
to be able to manage somehow or another
persistence; single-mindedness
to one's regret; regrettably; unfortunately; what can be done about ...; ... cannot be helped
hand; arm; handwriting; penmanship; 'shake' (command to have a dog place its paw in your hand)
often; frequently; lightly (of a movement); easily; simply
to call; to summon; to send for; to call together
men and women; man and woman; both sexes; both genders
to bend backwards; to bend oneself back; to be taken aback
astonishment; amazement; surprise; fright; shock
deadly serious; deadly earnest
discord; (on) bad terms (with)
insufficiency; deficiency; shortage; dissatisfaction; discontent; complaint
traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary; fundamentals; the ABCs of ...
format; procedure; way of proceeding