stepping back; drawing back
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
one line; (a) single line; boundary; line (between things); forefront; front line
self-proclaimed; self-professed; professing oneself to be; calling oneself; first person
to seclude oneself; to shut oneself away
unconsciousness; unconscious; involuntary; the unconscious
to swallow; to gulp down; to understand; to grasp; to engulf; to swallow up
reality; actuality; hard fact
shooting down (an aircraft)
attachment; adhesion; insistence; tenacity; fixation; obsession
part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties
origin; birthplace; descent; lineage; ancestry
nothing but; except; no more than
all sorts of things; (anything and) everything; by all means; at any cost
snow-white; pure; immaculate
distant view; looking from a distance; being able to see a long distance; good long-distance vision; farsightedness
one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)
tough; stubborn; determined; severely; heavily; hard
to be descended from; to inherit (a disposition, etc.) from one's ancestors
peacetime; time of peace; ordinary times; normal times
paper-thin (difference); razor-thin; very slight
to save up; to stockpile; to stash away; to hoard; to amass; to salt away
bursting; rupture; explosion; breakdown (of talks, negotiations, etc.); breaking off
if I (we, etc.) could; if one were to ... then ... (an unpleasant thing would happen)
mistake; error; accident; mishap; improper conduct (e.g. between man and woman); indiscretion
powerlessness; helplessness; incompetence; ineffectiveness
beyond that point; after that
to break; to be broken; to be folded; to give in; to back down; to turn (a corner)
to change; to alter; to mistake; to make a mistake; to fail to keep (e.g. one's promise); to sprain (a muscle)
fact; truth; reality; in fact; actually
to erase; to rub out; to turn off (a light, TV, heater, etc.); to switch off; to extinguish (a fire, candle, etc.); to put out; to remove (a smell, pain, etc.)
and; thereupon; because of that
binding (someone) hand and foot; being tied down (by rules, obligations, etc.)
pathetic; sad; sorrowful; grievous
looking like a ...; acting as if a ...