to get cold feet; to back away; to withdraw
damn it; damn; beast; animal; person reborn into the animal realm; brute
light color; light colour
to puzzle over; to think deeply about; to rack one's brains over (wrack)
glowing ember (either red hot charcoal or the glowing remains of burnt firewood); live charcoal
to scrape out; to rake out (e.g. ashes); to bail out (e.g. water)
stopping of bleeding; stanching; hemostasis; haemostasis
like that; that way; thus
to be pleased; to gloat; to glow with self-satisfaction
easy to do; apt to do; prone to do; liable to do
moat; fosse; canal; ditch
to set a watch; to post guards
damp; humid; wet; gloomy; melancholy
fire built in an iron basket (watch fire, fishing fire, etc.); bonfire; campfire; (arch.) brothel-keeper (Edo period)
disorder; chaos; confusion
pillage; plunder; looting; robbery
as one had hoped; as one wishes
to turn; to shift; to alter; to distract
to visit and comfort or console; to go to see (e.g. someone in hospital); to ask after (e.g. someone's health); to attack; to hit; to strike
and yet; despite (all) that
clearing out people (from a room, etc.); ordering people to leave
to bow; to worship; to receive; to see
very great; enormous; serious
speculation; thinking; meditation
to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by; to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in
stillness; silence; quiet; hush; calm; serenity
to connect; to tie; to fasten; to transfer (phone call)
guidance; leadership; leading the way
roost; nest; pad; crib; one's home
inundation; submersion; flood
sticking out prominently (usu. something long and thin); rising up
noble; high and noble; noble (character); refined; precious; expensive
criminal; lawbreaker; wrongdoer; offender
to put into order; to arrange (one's thoughts)
to boast; to brag; to feign ignorance; to pretend not to know; to recite (a song or poem to oneself); to bark
to run along; to run beside; to follow (a policy, plan, etc.); to act in accordance with; to meet (wishes, expectations, etc.); to satisfy