1) at heaven's command
2) main
3) guardian angel
4) not to content oneself with doing
5) a strain or so
“That strain again! It had a dying fall ...”, Shakespeare,
Twelfth Night
6) to celebrate the occasion
7) to take measures
8) to perpetrate
9) practical joke /practical joker
10) to ensure
11) a standing practical joke
cf. a standing expression
12) staid
13) to startle: startled/startling
14) recoil (noun) / to recoil (verb)
15) affronted dignity
16) reluctant amusement
17) apprehension
BUT:
to apprehend
18) there is something about sb.
19) unwelcoming <<>> unwelcome
20) freakish
21) irresponsible
22) solemn
23) frivolous
24) decorous
25) appearances
useful expressions: to keep up appearances
/ appearances are deceptive
26) to lurk
27) schoolboy grin
28) not unsuccessful
29) statesmanship
30) an air of improvisation
31) you never know where to have them
32) to fit handily into any pigeonhole
33) to shoulder out of the sea
34) he made a neat engineering job of it
35) consequently
konsequent: consistent
36) to square matters up
37) stretch of water
38) disagreeable
39) nobody in his senses
40) stomach (for doing)
41) sensible
42) dull
43) desirable
44) inaccessible
45) (a joke) acquires a rich flavour
46) to be well stocked
47) a veritable fruit of Tantalus
48) to bob at the mouth of
49) latitude
cf.l ongitude
50) unfavourable
51) celestial
52) with a chuckle
verb: to chuckle
53) off the distant shores
54) satisfactorily
55) to account for
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