ground; crust (earth); foundation (building, etc.); base; constituency; power base
soft sound; dampening (of sound)
to say; to spatter; to prate; to prattle; to babble
to split; to tear; to burst; to be separated; to be divided
to lose completely; to waste; to let slip away
as one likes; as one wants; as one wishes; as one hopes; as one sees fit; to one's satisfaction
no chance of; no way that; certainly not; will never happen
laws (of nature); (divine) providence
aloneness; loneliness; solitude
synthesis; combination; general; combined; synthesis; colligation
skip (bounding forward with alternate hops on each foot); skipping (over); skip (captain of a curling team); skipper
running the whole distance
north wind; northerly wind
power; authority; jurisdiction
with stealthy steps; with noiseless footsteps; on tiptoe; stealthily
invisibly; secretly; privately
error; mistake; slip; bug
to offer; to sacrifice; to dedicate
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
self-satisfaction; (self-)complacency; smugness
offering (e.g. to the gods); votive offering
to leave (something) undone; to neglect (a duty, task, etc.); to break (a promise, appointment, etc.); to stand (someone) up
at this stage; at this point; (only) now
rustling; dry; rough feeling; rough (of a person); coarse; catching fish with a net
thicket; bush; coppice; brushwood
only recently; just of late
black cat; Yamato Transport (door-to-door delivery service company)
as it is; plain (truth); bare; undisguised; unvarnished; unexaggerated
to melt; to liquefy; to dissolve (in a liquid); to bring into solution; to lose (money; through gambling, etc.); to squander
to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt