don't worry about it; forget about it
solitude; loneliness; isolation
bizarre; strange; eccentric; odd; queer
pish; pooh; I see; oh; indeed
considerably; fairly; quite
scoundrel; rascal; villain
yes; indeed; ha!; what?; huh?; sigh
to take a breath; to take a short rest
rearing from infancy; training from an early age (e.g. an apprentice); teaching from an early stage (e.g. a subordinate)
to bring; to take (something) along; to fetch; to get
large number (of); many; majority
people; citizens; subjects; folk
to form a line; to queue up; to line up
mountain road; mountain trail
to advance; to go forward; to precede; to go ahead (of); to make progress; to improve; to deepen
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
at first; in the beginning; originally
the country; countryside; rural districts; cultivated land; fields
drying up; running dry; running out; being exhausted; being drained
to (keep in) mind; to give heed to; to pay attention to
later on; subsequently; by and by; after a while
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
load; baggage; cargo; burden; responsibility
to hold in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to have (problems, debts, etc.); to take on (a responsibility); to employ; to have (on one's staff)
strange; odd; peculiar; queer; curious
to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind
line; queue; procession; matrix
instead of; in place of; as a substitute for; in exchange for; in return for; to make up for
discovery; detection; finding
settlement; village; community; (bacterial) colony
to die out; to become extinct
to starve; to be famished; to be hungry; to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
way to die; means of dying; quality of one's death
death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out
brow; glabella; middle forehead; area between the eyebrows
to put effort into; to strain; to put strength into; to put forth effort
to convey; to report; to transmit; to communicate; to tell; to impart
to get up (e.g. from bed); to make one's way in the world; to achieve in life
loose; lenient; lax; gentle (curve, slope, etc.); slow; weak; soft
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need