watchtower; observation tower; lookout
good outward appearance; looking nice; being attractive; making a fine show
to make it a principle to ...; to aim at doing
to need; to call for; to require
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
flowery words; rhetorical flourishes
to be stumped; to be at a loss; to be at one's wits' end; to be fed up; to be tired (of); to be unable to bear
failure; rejection; rupture
privacy; secrecy; confidentiality
exchange; interchange; switching; reciprocity; barter; substitution
real intention; true motive; true will; original intention; original purpose; original hope
recognition; acknowledgement; acknowledgment; approval; consent; agreement
His Majesty the Emperor; the present emperor; the reigning emperor
active; positive; progressive
to try to be reconciled (with); to take measures to bring about reconciliation
what one desires; what one hopes for; suits me well; could ask for nothing better; bring it on
as ... as one can; as ... as possible; as much as possible
self-control; self-restraint
to expose; to disclose; to lay bare; to confess
to run; to hurry (when going somewhere); to drive (a car) quickly; to ride fast (on a horse); to win (fame)
to be very far apart from; to be remote; to be quite different from
meal set before one; women's advances
divergence; alienation; deviation; estrangement; separation; detachment
to be in the firing line; to bear the brunt of (an attack, criticism, etc.); to face (e.g. questioning)
with my own (two) eyes; with these very eyes
to drive (e.g. horse, carriage); to control; to manage
by choice; of one's own free will; on one's own initiative; off one's own bat
shrewdness; sharpness; astuteness; acumen; tact
bad reputation; ill repute; bad name; (arch.) evil deed; (arch.) wrongdoing; (arch.) wrongdoer
malignant (cancer); virulent; pernicious (anemia, anaemia)
to have two things (at the same time) (e.g. good and bad points); to also have something (in addition to something else)
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
rash; eruption (in response to a skin irritant); influence; crazy about; having an affectation concerning all things surrounding something (esp. a language, a culture, etc.)
viewing and treating as one; regarding as the same; equating one thing with another; identification
to shake; to swing; to sway; to shock
liking something; being partial to something; -phile
following (in the footsteps of); catching up with; coming level with
inveigling; ensnaring; enticement; cajoling
correction; revision; redressing; rectifying