middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
hey there; I say; see here
to fish; to angle; to catch; to lure in; to tempt; to attract
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
festival merrymaking; revelry
start; commencement; beginning; initiation
to come near; to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to; to overhang; to hang over
ceremony; rite; ritual; service
horseplay; fooling around
ill will; spite; bad meaning; mala fides; bad faith; malice
to cut loose; to act without restraint; to throw off all inhibitions; to go wild
acting rashly; running wildly; runaway (process); reckless baserunning
malicious; vicious; malignant; shoddy; inferior; poor-quality
preparation; arrangements
evening; last night; yesterday evening
complexion; one's colour; one's color; countenance; expression; one's face
to worry about; to be worried about; to fret about; to not know what to do; to be at a loss (as to what to do)
haggardness; emaciation; wasting away; being tired out; being worn out; exhaustion
key to a solution; first step toward a solution; thread to unravel a mystery
one way or another; in many ways; in various ways
to feel uncomfortable; to be offended; to have a bad time
to ask a big favour; to ask unreasonable things; to be unreasonable
to have a meal; to take a meal
to quit one's job; to resign
disposition; temperament; temper; nature
(not) in any way; in no way; at all; terribly; awfully; hopelessly
sense of caution; wariness
insular; closed; unsociable; exclusive
remarkable; striking; obvious
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
inquisitively; pryingly; nosily; thoroughly; persistently; through-and-through
disappearance; running away; going missing; absconding
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected
whether one likes it or not; inevitably; unavoidably; compulsorily; by force
to expose; to disclose; to lay bare; to confess
to grow wild; to run to waste; to become rough (of art, craft, etc.); to lose refinement; to intensify (of wind, rain, etc.); to become more severe
with a start; in surprise; suddenly (realize, remember, etc.); all of a sudden; puffing (air); with a puff
to come to one's senses; to calm down
long time; long interval; for quite some time
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly