training; drill; practice; discipline
to be truant; to slack off; to play hooky; to skip school; to cut class; to skip out
to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters); to bundle; to govern; to manage; to fold (one's arms); to put together (one's hands)
as you (they, etc.) say; as you suggest; I absolutely agree
to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one
as one likes; as one wants; as one wishes; as one hopes; as one sees fit; to one's satisfaction
long-standing ambition; one's heart's desire
to carry on one's back; to burden oneself (e.g. with debts, responsibilities, etc.)
to feel like it; to get to think that way; to become so minded
to read (a book); to open (a book) to read; to unravel (e.g. a mystery); to discover (the truth)
every person; each one; everybody
foreword; preface; prefatory note
to go through several printings; to run into several editions
addition; annexation; appendage
pull; patronage; tug; room to move the camera back; drawing back; pulling back
humorous; funny; amusing; enjoyable (e.g. life); pleasant; fun
to save up; to stockpile; to stash away; to hoard; to amass; to salt away
as expected; just as one thought; as feared; sure enough
spineless; backboneless; timid; cowardly; weak-kneed
transformation; variation; metamorphosis; modification; deformation; variety
stolen goods; stolen article; loot; spoils
to count up; to enumerate
conceiving (an idea); thinking up; invention; original idea; new idea
cannot be compared (with); being no match (for)
clear writing; specification
classicist; classical scholar
practical learning; practical studies; practical science; studies with real applications
writing; book; (literary) work
convenient; favorable; favourable; expedient; expedience
fortune; fate; chance; coincidence; (stroke of) luck
tomfoolery; foolish act; nonsense; fool; idiot
to become famous; to go out into the world; to make one's way in the world; to appear
unripe; green; immature; immature; inexperienced; unskilled