talking in delirium; delirious talk; delirious utterances; nonsense; rubbish; silly talk
at first; initially; in the beginning
calculation; self-interest; selfishness
to keep away; to keep at a distance
broken; interrupted; disconnected; intermittent; fragmentary; discontinuous
dark clouds gather; threatening signs emerge; trouble is afoot
to blow violently; to sweep over; to devastate
look of the sky (esp. of bad weather); weather; course (of events); situation; way the wind is blowing
stratagem; artifice; trick; ruse; scheme; tactics
fulfillment; fulfilment; realization; realisation; completion
sense; idea; desire; concern; attention; care
to cheat (someone out of); to swindle; to wangle; to wheedle; to get
leaving one's objective incomplete; leaving one's ambition unfulfilled; being unable to achieve one's goal
interpretation; explanation; reading; construction
volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)