Vocabulary

bulrush mat

fine thread

slender character

to keep step with

to neglect; to leave undone; to lay aside

rightly; properly; moderately

to go too far; to break bounds

having spirit; (being) staunch; having backbone

to make (somewhere) one's final home; to make (a place) one's final resting place

to make efforts; to take pains

conservative without party affiliation

to walk; to move forward

to set about in earnest; to make a strenuous effort; to put one's back into (doing)

beginning; origin; start

current year (fiscal, academic, etc.)

between the pages of a book

bookworm; bibliophile; bibliophage

to compile a book

to publish a book; to put out a book

to open a book

bar thermometer

fireproof construction

radio jamming

to act with extreme violence

foolhardy courage

to be very busily occupied; to be swamped (with work); to be overwhelmed (e.g. by tasks)

to take off one's hat

there are brief moments of leisure even when at one's busiest

to hit with a club

to quell a disturbance

master of the priests quarters

inside of a chamber

vast; boundless

storm area (winds of 25mps or more)

roundup of gangsters

to resort to violence

despite one's busyness

to draw a line

at my place

welding base metal; parent metal