jpdb beta

highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly

1

at; in; at; when; by; with; so

12

pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely

3

doll; puppet; marionette; puppet (person under the control of another); straw man; yes-man

5

pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)

1

when one was a very young child; very early in one's life

1

is not; am not; are not

3

probably; likely; perhaps; a lot of; much; many

2

to be delighted; to be glad; to congratulate; to welcome (a proposal, advice, etc.); to take kindly to; to do with pleasure

1

good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result

3

ordinary; common; free of charge; free; unaffected; as is

2

to like; to be pleased with; to be delighted with; to take a liking to; to suit one's fancy

2

thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality

2

to give (as a gift); to present; to confer; to bestow; to award

1

to continue; to keep up; to keep on; to continue ...; to keep on ...

1

to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience

5

(please) try to; (please) look; seeing; looking

1

it seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?

3

come (on); come now; all right; right; well; hmm

1

I wonder; should I?; is it?; I wish that; I hope that

3

house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name

2

inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during

1

to fall completely silent; to become still as death

1

always; all the time; never; usual; regular

2

just the two of them

1

younger brother; little brother; brother-in-law (spouse's younger brother or younger sister's husband); (arch.) pupil; (arch.) apprentice

6

to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to

1

in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward

2

to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to lean on; to put one's weight on

1

many; numerous; large amount of; large quantity of; frequent; common

1

study; library; den; home office; reading room

4

also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise

1

freedom; liberty

1

going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease

1

there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you

3

foreign country

1

smuggling in; importing through illegal channels

1

called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...

2

to fascinate; to enchant; to possess; to bewitch; to enthrall

1

like; as; so that; in order that; be sure to; I hope (that)

2

to look at; to gaze at; to look out over; to get a view of; to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch

1

sometimes; occasionally; at times; seasonal; of the season; appropriate (for the season or occasion)

1

to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation

1

surely; certainly

1

beautiful; pretty; lovely; sweet; pure (heart, friendship, etc.)

1

what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any

2

than; in comparison to; rather than; over; above

1

wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason

1

cruel; brutal; ruthless; merciless; inhuman

1

-ness; indicates assertion; come (on); come now; er; um; indicates scrutiny, critique or mistrust

3