now; soon; already; yet; further; more
slowly; quietly; steadily; soon; momentarily; before long
when it becomes; when it comes to
difficult to ...; hard to ...
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
how; in what way; how about
begging for one's life; pleading for one's life
imagination; supposition; guess
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted