water of life; life-giving water; distilled liquor (brandy, whisky, etc.); spirits; (arch.) semen
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell
to slaughter; to massacre; to butcher; to defeat soundly; to overpower; to vanquish
composition; constitution
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
filtration; filtering; percolation
to meet (wishes, expectations, etc.); to satisfy; to accompany; to go with; to associate with (someone); to mix with
contrary to one's wishes; gone awry; gone amiss; short of money; in financial difficulty
all ages; great antiquity; eternity
to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)
to shake one's head (in denial)
snugly; cosily; compactly
travelling on foot; traveling on foot; travelling all over
the mere shadow of one's former self; the ruin of what one once was
wealth, prosperity, and arrogant splendor (splendour); (living sumptuously) intoxicated by wealth and power; luxury
doing ... until one goes bankrupt; doing ... until one goes broke; falling short of (one's reputation); failing to live up to (one's appearance); falling through (e.g. of a plan)
aloneness; loneliness; solitude
permeation (of thought, ideology, culture, etc.); infiltration (e.g. of ideas); permeation (of a liquid, etc.); soaking; osmosis
Life and death are the two faces of the same coin
time; age; chance; moment; occasion
great (learned) priest; celebrated priest who has attained spiritual enlightenment
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
tenets (of a religious sect); doctrines; (religious) sect; denomination; one's principles; one's tastes
confidential document; confidential paper; classified document
vantage point; viewpoint; standpoint; outlook
radioactive contamination
record high; all-time high
heavy flooding; disastrous flood; deluge; great flood (sent by a deity); flood myth
very much; very many; more and more
to relate to; to connect with
atomic reactor; nuclear reactor
endorsement; proof; note on back of the scroll
to boast; to brag; to exaggerate
seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words
Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii)