giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
polite; courteous; hospitable
several minutes; a few minutes
slender build; slender figure; leptosome; waifish; leptosomaic; leptosomatic
to hold back (e.g. emotions); to rein in (e.g. a horse, unruly people); to get the better of; to control; to command
large and rough; big and tough; unrefined; rustic; extreme; excessive
false; pseudo-; quasi-; would-be; sham; pretended
translation; deciphering; decoding; translation
curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange
accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation
meeting; assembly; association; conjunction
boy; son; child; mere boy; stripling; greenhorn
How do you do?; I am glad to meet you
inexperienced person; young person; novice; greenhorn
encouragement; urging; spurring on
my goodness!; oh my!; oh dear!
best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
Japanese style; Japanesque; Japanism
surname; family name; last name
pupil and (dark) iris of the eye
descendant; posterity; offspring
old woman; joker (card); hag; bitch
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
attendance (on); chaperonage; attendant; escort; entourage
to examine someone's expression
to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex; to go into; to put into; to do intently
cane; walking stick; staff; wand
stupid idiot; total moron
to pay attention to another's needs; to attend to; to fuss about; to take into consideration
one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)
to show respect for; to revere; to honour; to honor; to worship; to hold in esteem
feeling obliged; being grateful; being thankful; (arch.) shrinking back in fear
secret; private; surreptitious
insight; power of observation
to become weak; to decline; to wear; to abate; to decay; to wither
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen