promising without due consideration
bridal costume; wedding dress
whispering into a person's ear
to charge; to lunge; to flare up (at someone); to turn on (someone); to collide with; to bump into
Glatz; Graz (Austria); Glaz
Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)
face; honour; honor; appearance; look
to hold a small dinner party
someone; unknown person; I; me
to fling off; to throw off; to cast aside; to abandon; to throw to the winds
to stare back (at); to glare back
fit; spasm; attack; seizure
in a crowd; ganging up (on); joining forces
to strum (an instrument); to thrum; to pluck
to tuck one's tail between one's legs; to admit defeat; to turn tail (and run)
later on; eventually; afterwards
smuggling oneself into a country; illegal immigration
unavoidably; inevitably; necessarily; reluctantly; against one's will
constraint; reserve; feeling hesitant; being afraid of troubling someone
in order; sequential; seriatim
to hand over; to turn over; to cede
attitude to life; form of existence; way of life
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
under custody; under supervision; undecided match; draw; tie
running (for election); coming forward as a candidate; going on horseback; going in person; (arch.) letting out a horse; (arch.) taking out a horse
unheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking
rising rapidly (e.g. prices, popularity); soaring; skyrocketing; going through the roof
to go with the flow; to go with the times
to enter into diplomatic relations
to put an end (to); to close the books (on)
distant place; remote point
eternal; everlasting; unchangeable; invariant
choice; selection; pickup (phonograph); stylus bar; pickup truck; pickup
to feel inferior; to feel small