to be effective; to be fruitful; to be worthwhile; to be worth; to be rewarded; to pay off
came here; coming here; recently
misfortune; ill fate; bad luck; obscurity
worship; adoration; admiration; cult
tenacious; tough; enduring; dogged; headstrong; stubborn
yielding; submission; surrender; giving way; succumbing
high street; town centre (center)
prosperity; bustle; activity; crowd; turnout
as planned; according to plan
one's post; one's station; department; bureau; section
to be by far the best; to be much better; to excel; to be exceptional; to be prominent; to be outstanding
attack; offence; top (dominant partner of a homosexual relationship); barrage (of); flood (of)
(having) two choices; choice between two things
blunder; miss; slip; oversight
leap; jump; stepping out into the wider world; becoming active on a wider stage; rapid progress; dramatic development
life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood
to go beyond the limit; to pass the limit
oracle; revelation; divine message
it's OK to ...; it's best to ...; it's alright to ...
to lie; to pretend; to feign; to deceive; to trick
long (time); longstanding; for a long time
to praise; to extol; to hail; to laud; to celebrate
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
not long has passed since ...
War of the Roses (1455-1485)
abolition; discontinuance; discontinuation; repeal; annulment
domestic discord; internal discord; internal strife; internal struggle; infighting
(beheading) block; guillotine; scaffold
to escape to a safe place; to make one's getaway; to effect one's escape; to make good one's escape
to be dripping wet; to get drenched to the skin
to have medicine be effective
dirty; filthy; disordered; messy; indecent (language, etc.); dirty
trapped with no way of escape; (lit.) rat in a bag
to gain time; to play for time; to buy time
mercy; compassion; clemency; rufous hawk-cuckoo; northern hawk-cuckoo