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unmanned; uninhabited; unattended; shorthandedness; lack of help

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lonesome; lonely; forlorn

2

contrary to expectations; or so we thought, but ...

4

while passing each other

1

interior; backwoods; hinterland; back regions

3

bitter experience; misery; distress; grief; sad thoughts; hardship

2

aspect; phase; condition; modality

10

electric light

4

to pour; to add (liquid); to serve (drinks); to put on (lipstick, etc.); to apply; to colour

1

lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication

8

to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience

9

heartening; reassuring

2

to break by stepping on; to trample; to stomp on; to walk (all the way) across; to traverse (on foot); to travel through

2

vigilance; caution; alertness; precaution; being on guard

5

walking around at night

3

to avoid (physical contact with); to avoid (situation); to evade (question, subject); to ward off; to avert; to put aside

12

mouse; rat; dark gray; slate gray

12

rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)

7

wise; clever; smart; well-behaved (esp. children and pets); obedient; good

1

to live long; to survive

3

in; at; on; as for; regarding; with regards to

3

(already) known; established

1

extent; scope; sphere; range; span

1

slow; lagging; tardy

3

to get used to seeing; to become accustomed to seeing; to be familiar with

10

dropping; unloading; grated vegetables, fruit, etc.; grater; using new tools (or clothes, etc.); new tools (or clothes, etc.)

1

slow; sluggish; dull; lax (regulation, handling, etc.); slack; sloppy

13

guide map

4

to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of

11

to be main; to be principal; to be important

2

fork; junction; diverging point; turning point (e.g. in one's life); crossroads

2

(arch.) like that; (arch.) as such; yeah; uh-huh

9

(something) has never occurred; to have never done (something); such a thing has not happened; never happens; there is never a time when

8

to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)

24

trouble (I have put you through); (your) hard work; thank you (for your hard work); I appreciate your efforts

1

to sing; to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem; to express in the form of a poem; to recite (a poem)

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sleepy; drowsy; somnolent

6

must not; do not

4

unexplained fever in an infant (in the past believed to be related to intellectual development); teething fever; (lit.) wisdom fever; fever that comes from using one's head too much

2

rather than (do ...)

8

name of a disease

1

shock (emotional); shock (physical); impact; crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; (circulatory) shock

5

revival (of an old system, custom, fashion, etc.); restoration; return; resurrection; rebirth

3

frame (i.e. of a sliding door); crosspiece; bar; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); rung (of a ladder)

11

whale (Cetacea spp.)

6

to spout (of a whale); to blow (water and air from a blowhole); to squirt (female ejaculation)

1

to blow up (i.e. wind); to blow upwards; to spout into the air

5

to say to each other; to exchange (jokes, comments, etc.); to quarrel; to dispute

3

order; command; directions; instructions

4

the other day; lately; recently

9