lively; full of spirit; energetic; healthy; well; fit
father; dad; papa; pa; pop; daddy
(establish) friendly (cordial) relations (with, between); (form) friendship (e.g. with a nation)
friendship; friendly relations; connection; relation; intimacy
plain; field; hidden (structural) member; wild; lacking a political post
entrance; admission; entering
dreary; bleak; monotonous; tasteless; unrefined
opposite; reverse; contrary
scale; scope; plan; structure
book; volume; this; present; main; head
street; quarter; district; area
scenery; scene; landscape; scene (e.g. of a crime)
odds and ends; all; every
street stall; stand; booth
going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease
to run a shop; to have a shop
to have a feeling (that); to have a sensation (that)
to tell (a story); to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.); to relate; to tell of; to show; to indicate
no wonder; little wonder; after all; as expected; which isn't surprising
moat; fosse; canal; ditch
(sense of) cleanliness; (sense of) freshness
I'm afraid to say; I'm sorry to say; unfortunately
carefree; optimistic; careless; reckless; heedless; happy-go-lucky
eyes sparkling; with shining eyes; for one's eyes to gleam
to soothe; to calm; to pacify
being done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; (lit.) throwing up (one's) hands
thundering; purring; something large and heavy starting to roll; scattered about; common; idleness; idling about
in drops; dripping; gently (sloping); sluggishly; endlessly; leisurely
to roll; to tumble; to fall over; to roll over; to lie down; to be scattered about; to be lying around
to be wrapped up (e.g. in a blanket); to cover oneself
to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of
to repeat; to be frequent
blockade; lockdown; sealing off (an area); freezing (funds)
another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to
to drive away; to turn away; to send away; to repel; to repulse
to try; to attempt; to have a go (at something)
persistence; single-mindedness
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)