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commencing with; including

2

(a) row; line

1

committee; commission; board; panel; committee meeting

1

healthy; sound; wholesome

1

absolutely essential; indispensable; vital; critical

1

to change completely; to change suddenly

1

tone of voice; mimicry; imitative voice

3

child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)

31

meek; gentle; modest; praiseworthy; admirable

1

to one's heart's content; as much as one wants; as hard as one can; resolution; decisiveness; determination

4

to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)

4

to trample down; to tread on; to ignore; to spurn

2

to wedge one's way in; to push in (between); to step in (between); to interrupt (a conversation, quarrel, etc.); to intervene

8

gentlemen; men; the men's (sign on toilet, bathroom, etc. doors)

1

to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter

7

sleeve; wing (of a stage, desk, gate, etc.)

6

painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing; exceeding

32

headdress; crown; covering; fogging (photography); blushing

1

common; usual

3

story for young girls

2

temporary

1

stay; sojourn

4

wind and waves; strife; discord; dissension

1

Hundred Years War (1337-1453)

2

Joan of Arc

2

bell; bel; B

2

lecture

5

wisteria (esp. Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda); wistaria

4

stairs; stairs at the front of a noh stage

1

class

2

just before; on the verge of; on the brink of; just in front of; just ahead of

4

lonely; lonesome; dreary; (arch.) loneliness; (arch.) desolation

1

among (them); of (them)

9

exception

1

to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (as); to act (as); to conduct a religious service

2

United Kingdom; Britain; Great Britain

2

France

1

to begin to speak

6

to write down; to make a note of; to put on record; to chronicle

9

speed; velocity; pace; velocity

7

fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet

2

closing years (period, days); last stage; end stage; terminal (e.g. cancer, disease, etc.); final

3

Gilles de Rais

1

noble; aristocrat; peer

1

children's story; fairy tale

3

protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story); head of household

3

let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...

15

children

2

slaughter (of animals for meat); butchery

1

playing at (something); game of make-believe; something done together

1