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| ‘The back door was slid open, and he could see Isako on all fours, blowing at the charcoal in the brazier.’[image] |
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An open pan for burning charcoal, used especially for heating rooms in Southern and Eastern countries, such as Italy, China, Japan, etc. |
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‘And don’t loiter. It’s not safe. And don’t keep licking your lips. You look like a stray cat.’[image] |
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· To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand idly; to linger; to hang around. |
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‘The poor were too hungry to waste their energy strolling about, and the merchants and those who had a little something feared to go out lest they be robbed by the renegade samurai, the ronin, who had forgotten the code of honor but not how to wield their long curved swords.'
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· To handle (a weapon or tool) with skill and ease. |
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‘Now for nearly five years, there had been famine.’
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| Severe hunger; starvation. |
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‘The two men fell into the kind of gossip one engages in a public bathhouse-the foibles of friends or neighbors, current events as long as no criticism of the government is implied.’[image] |
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| A minor weakness or failing of character. |
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| ‘It is always bad to be a thief, whether your name is Furukawa the rice merchant or Saburo the rogue.’[image] |
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| An unprincipled, wandering, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal. |
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