to get; to secure; to learn; to master; to complete
not yet known; unknown; strange
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years
was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...
youthful; young; young-looking
ageing; aging; senile deterioration
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
tune; tone; vein; mood; condition; state of health
spear; lance; javelin; lance; (arch.) jeering
structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance
body; physique; shape; form; substance; identity; field
overwhelming victory; crushing victory; sweeping victory; landslide victory
breathing of a sleeping person
skillful; skilful; adroit; clever; shrewd; ingenious
to break up (e.g. a meeting); to call it a night
a few minutes later; after a few minutes
momentum; amount of exercise
change; alteration; substitute; rate of exchange
sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages; counter for cupfuls, bowlfuls, spoonfuls, etc.; counter for boats; counter for octopuses and squid; cup (in sports)
good bye; I'm off; see you later
thank you for your hard work; good work; see you; goodbye; goodnight
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
crowd of people; great number of people; in great numbers
imperial loyalist samurai of the Bakumatsu-era; patriots; idealists willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
to carry in one's hand; to carry with one; to have on one's person; to take along (someone); to take (someone) with one; to be accompanied by
to do in place of or on behalf of (someone)
dramatic decrease; sharp drop; sudden fall
to enter; to trespass; to interfere; to meddle; to pry into
negligence; carelessness; inattention; unpreparedness
enemy territory; hostile place
what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind
to lurk; to be hidden; to be concealed; to lie dormant; to be latent
not all bad; not as dissatisfied (or annoyed) as one would have others believe
to lie on one's back with legs outstretched; to recline; to get cocky; to be arrogant
one (esp. of two); the other; on the one hand; on the other hand; whereas; although
speech; expression; wording; language
to yell; to shout; to scream; to bawl
to be seething (with anger); to be frenzied; to be menacing; to be murderous
to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal
to quiet; to calm down; to compose oneself; to settle down