marriage ceremony; wedding; nuptials
come; come now; well; who knows; well now; let's see
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
refusal; rejection; denial; veto
thickly; viscously; sleepily; drowsily; dozing off
many times over; often; repeatedly; time after time
ethics; ethical viewpoint; moral value; sense of duty; sense of ethics
to bear; to stand; to endure; to put up with
whip; lash; scourge; stick; cane; rod
to run off; to break into a run; to start running
confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
(not) in any way; in no way; at all; terribly; awfully; hopelessly
to fall through; to come to nothing; to be ruined
number of times; frequency; count
talking in delirium; incoherent muttering
to flicker; to quiver; to waver; to sway
true character; true form; true colors (colours); consciousness; one's senses
crevice; crack; spare moment; interval; chink (in one's armor, armour); unpreparedness
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)
to all appearances; no matter how you look at it
to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept
just like that; quite so; I agree; (lit.) that street
father; dad; husband; you; he
connection (to a person, place, etc.); relation; affinity
young girl; lass; adolescent female
necessities of life (food, clothing and shelter)
work; labor; achievement; performance; salary; income
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty