holiday house; vacation home; villa; prison; jail
love affair; sensual pleasures
private talk; confidential talk; secret talk
right on the heels of yesterday, then today ...; soon after something, and yet now ...
vassals; retainers; followers
fragile article; breakables; broken article
to think (something) strange
chirp; twitter; warble; whale tongue
getting a lump in one's throat; overflowing with feelings; chest full of; lungs full of
discovery; detection; finding
denouement; ending; conclusion; (grand) finale
total size (of land); square measure
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
busy; hurried; confused; flurried
to be softened; to calm down
several times; once or twice
progress; advance; improvement; development
to result in death; to lead to death; to be fatal (e.g. disease)
to redeem (from sin); to save
to clear up; to clear away; to refresh (e.g. spirits); to be cleared (e.g. of a suspicion); to be dispelled; to be banished
price; cost; charge; payment; bill; fee
balance; difference (in price, cost); margin
upright; honest; faithful; conscientious; sincere
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
to employ; to hire; to charter
cancelling (a debt); forgiving (a debt); being even; forgetting (what was said or done); pretending (something never happened)
I don't know about ... but; it may be possible for ... but
uniforms supplied to employees; an allotment
to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to be confused from not knowing what to do
transformation; abnormality; sexual perversion; pervert; metamorphosis; transformation
attractive; good-looking; stylish; cool; smooth; neat
knowingly or unknowingly; with or without someone's knowledge
to become angry or sullen; to take offense; to be miffed; to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off
to make muddy (of a liquid); to make cloudy; to make turbid; to make ambiguous; to evade (e.g. the point); to be noncommittal about
aim; goal; prospect; outlook
super-; ultra-; extremely; really; over; more than
to step aside; to move (i.e. out of the way); to make way; to resign; to retire; to quit