painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
to swing; to sway; to shake; to waver; to feel shaken; to become unstable
to pin (someone) down; to hold down; to shut out (one's opponent); to keep (the opposing team) from scoring; to suppress; to control
to fetter; to shackle; to bind
to keep watching; to continue looking at; to gaze at
to have one's horizons broadened
crying face; face of a person who is crying
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
to inherit; to succeed; to take over
unfeeling; heartless; cold-hearted; cruel
to be reborn; to be reincarnated; to turn over a new leaf; to become a new person; to be reorganized; to be transformed
almost every day; almost daily
extortion; blackmail; shakedown; extortionist; blackmailer; racketeer
regular customer; regular patron; regular visitor; constant companion
to have a name entered in the family register
this and that; one thing and another
beyond; across; the other side; the distance
marriage ceremony; wedding; nuptials
reluctant; unwilling; involuntary; unintentional; unintended; unlooked-for
unconditionally; as a rule
heredity; (genetic) inheritance
Lorelei (Loreley); Rhine maiden who lured sailors to their doom; rock in the Rhine
legend; folklore; tradition
astounding; startling; world-shaking; amazing; earth-shattering
satisfactory; decent; good; proper; respectable
to be affected; to put on airs; to act like (something one isn't); to pretend to be
four characters; four letters
nature (of a person); disposition; temperament; quality; inherent characteristic; property
end of the world; farthest corner of the earth
several steps; much (better, higher, etc.); several cuts (above)
one (esp. of two); the other; on the one hand; on the other hand; whereas; although
foster parent; adoptive parent; person who raised one; founding figure; key developer
face; official stance; public position or attitude (as opposed to private thoughts); ceremony for the erection of the framework of a house
emphatic sentence-ending particle
to beat fast (of a heart); to hammer