illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
satisfactory; desirable; favourable; seeming (to be); appearing
to become misty; to become hazy; to get blurry; to grow dim; to be overshadowed; to be upstaged
letter (of an alphabet); character; writing
going; travelling; act; action; bank; counter for banks; counter for groups or parties of people
from out of nowhere; from who knows where
one (small animal); two-tan bolt of cloth
to rock; to shake; to swing
to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray
occasion; time; section (of a literary work or piece of music); passage; clause; season; term
piece (scrap, bit, strip) of paper
to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)
to jump up; to start up; to leap to one's feet; to fly away; to take off
ugly; unsightly; hideous; mean; repulsive; disgraceful
harmful insect; noxious insect; pest; vermin
to belong to; to come under; to be affiliated with; to be subject to
lonely (e.g. person, feeling); lonesome; desolate; deserted; sad; lacking
grandfather; male senior-citizen
to compromise; to meet halfway; to step up to; to walk up to; to approach
shadow; silhouette; reflection; image; ominous sign; light (stars, moon); trace
to get blurry vision; to get bleary eyes; to get dim eyesight
wicked tongue; sharp tongue; abusive language
after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
to die a natural death (at an advanced age); to live out one's allotted span of life
cane; walking stick; staff; wand
to hide; to keep to oneself
close aide (of a powerful person); close associate; entourage; attendant; retainer
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
record of war; war chronicle; commentaries of war; military history
complimentary copy of a book
one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume
one hundred years ago; a hundred year previously
lecture (esp. special engagement by noted speaker); lecture meeting (event with one or more lectures)
simple and honest; unsophisticated; simpleminded; naive; unspoiled
moving tale; impressive tale