growing impudent; becoming arrogant; getting stuck-up; becoming more severe (esp. regarding something bad); increasing
baldness; bald head; bald person; baldy; idiot; moron
not quite (right); not very good; somewhat (lacking)
(one's) older brother; young man; sonny; lad
robbery; pillage; seizure; hijacking; plunder; extortion
just when (one is about to ...); just as; the very moment when; on the point of
diamond; (railway) schedule; timetable; diagram
seed of Buddhahood; something that makes it possible to attain Buddhahood; teaching of Buddha which make it possible to be enlightened
to take refuge in; to succeed in running away
pudding (esp. custard); black hair dyed blond but where the roots have again turned black
begging for one's life; pleading for one's life
happy family circle; sitting in a family circle and enjoying conversation; harmony in a family
low dining table; tea table
notification; official notice; directive (e.g. from higher to lower levels of the administration); being well versed (in); being proficient (in)
mob; the masses; rabble; riffraff
to get away without consequences; to get off scot-free
fighting back; returning fire; counter-attack; responding to an attack; accepting a challenge
in the company of; accompanied by ...; as a group comprising ...; likes of ...
strange; unfamiliar; unknown; unfamiliarity; strangeness; stranger
busy; hurried; confused; flurried
with a plunge (of something sharp into something soft); with a thrust; with a stab; sullenly; sulkily; glumly
suitor (e.g. for a woman); wooer
to say all kinds of things; to complain; to find fault (with)
to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by; to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in
common; shared; to be common (to); to be shared (by); -wide
charred; burnt black; scorched black
(in) dire straits; (in a) serious bind; (in a) big pinch