(official) audience; interview; reception; meeting with one's lawyer (while detained or imprisoned)
selecting a suitable person; personnel selection
with (the sound of) clashing swords; (arguing) fiercely; heatedly; vehemently
to have a tendency; to be liable to; to have a touch of; to have a smack of
to use completely; to use up; to exhaust; to exhaust someone's civility; to give up (on someone)
to put someone to trouble
quick to seize an opportunity
suitable time; good time; propriety; moderation
to knit (one's eyebrows); to furrow; to contract
I'm home!; I'm back!; now; at present; just now; a moment ago
shortness of breath; panting; puffing; running out of steam (of the economy, a project, etc.); losing momentum; loss of efficiency
palpitation (of the heart); pounding; throbbing; thumping
nonstandard; out of spec; irregular; exceptional; extraordinary; unbelievable
to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice
to drip; to drop; to trickle; to overflow (with freshness, beauty, etc.)
waterfall; (arch.) rapids
to be splendidly handsome
talking in delirium; delirious talk; delirious utterances; nonsense; rubbish; silly talk
tottering; staggering; reeling
tottering steps; drunken staggering
to collapse; to flop (onto)
weak; weakly; feeble; frail; delicate; faint (voice, sunlight, etc.)
to speak with an accent; to mispronounce; to be corrupted (of word)
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
cities, towns and villages; municipalities
arriving on an island; coming to an island
making a round trip; going and returning; round-trip ticket; return ticket; correspondence; exchanging (of letters)
to die by drowning; to drown
tomfoolery; monkey business
to be nearing death; to be dying