grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
at that time; in those days
special; particular; peculiar; unique
princess; spoiled girl; hothouse flower; glue
and they all lived happily ever after; having a happy ending; ending without incident
princess; spoiled girl; hothouse flower; glue
point in common; common feature
consideration; examination; investigation; study; scrutiny; discussion
arm; ability; skill; (physical) strength
to undo; to untie; to unfasten; to unlace; to unravel; to loosen
I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow
contemplation; meditation
winter vacation; winter holidays
to smoke; to smoulder; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder
ignition; combustion; firing a blank cartridge; discharge of a gun without bullets; firing (of an event); triggering
to feel right; to sit well with one; to be happy about; to suit to a T; to fit well together
to end one's life; to commit suicide; to end a life; to kill
accession to the throne; enthronement
to freeze (to something); to be frozen (to); to freeze hard; to freeze completely
to go on about (one's love affairs); to speak proudly of (one's spouse, girlfriend, etc.); to speak fondly of
wordplay; play on words; pun; rhyming game
to kill; to beat to death
leaving behind; desertion; abandonment
earth; ground; the solid earth; the (vast) land
to subsist; to keep on living
living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps; stet (proofreading)
dirty; filthy; disordered; messy; indecent (language, etc.); dirty
lineage; pedigree; family line; birth
putting one's life on the line; giving everything one has got; acting out of desperation
lack; absence; shortage; deficiency; privation
to call out to; to hail; to address; to appeal (e.g. to the public); to urge; to exhort
deep down; special place in one's heart; in the back of one's mind
to underrate; to make light of
six of one, half a dozen of the other; scant difference
certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts
to weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to get through (adversity); to weather; to load completely (e.g. books on a shelf, people or luggage in a car)