willpower; guts; determination; character; nature; disposition
magic; witchcraft; sorcery; spell
chance; stroke of luck; (curious) turn of events
surely; certainly; without doubt
as soon as ...; just after ...; immediately after ...; hurriedly; in haste; quickly
to smile cheerfully; to crack a smile
benefit; use; good; profit; gains
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely
constraint; reserve; feeling hesitant; being afraid of troubling someone
downhill; downward slope; descent; decline; waning; ebb
slope; inclination; tendency; trend; slope (of a linear function)
awfully; frightfully; desperately; violently; unduly; extremely
to stick (to); to cling (to); to adhere (to); to stay (in a place); to stick close (to someone); to follow (someone) around
to gasp for air; to pant; to be out of breath
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
gasping for breath; puffing and panting; wheezing
to gasp; to pant; to breathe hard; to suffer; to struggle
to take in; to bring in; to capture (e.g. image); to import; to win over; to please
to run out of breath; to be short of breath; to run out of steam; to be unable to continue; to die
field; plain; hidden interior part (of a structure or object); wild (of an animal or plant)
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
to mount up; to pile up; to accumulate; to increase
care; looking after; repair; (police) raid; crackdown
street; quarter; district; area
movement; transfer; migration; mobile; moving; traveling
railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations
to transfer (trains); to change (bus, train); to change (to another ideology, party, company, etc.); to switch (to a different system, method, etc.); to move on to (e.g. a new love interest)
stage (of a theatre, concert hall, etc.); stage performance; stage production; setting (of a story); scene; sphere (of activity)
remote place; backcountry; the sticks; hinterland
ominous place outside the human world; mysterious place where no human being lives; uninhabited area
coach (horse-drawn); carriage; wagon; cart
to bring in; to take in; to approach (someone) with (a proposal, offer, problem, etc.); to bring; to bring (to another stage); to take (e.g. to court, to extra time, to a play-off)
severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)
where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes
years gone by; earlier years; former years; the past