in pursuit



fishing, following, hunting, searching ,

   duchy - ally, archbishopric, archdiocese, bailiwick, bishopric, body politic, borough, buffer state, canton, captive nation, city, city-state, colony, commonwealth, commune,

   bright smile - beam, grin, grinning, simper, smile, smiling, smirk ,

   countrified - boorish, bucolic, churlish, cloddish, clownish, country, country-born, country-bred, from the sticks, hayseed, hobnailed, loutish, lumpen, lumpish, outland,

   sizzle - ball the jack, barrel, be livid, be pissed, bluster, boil, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, browned off, brush, burn, buzz, carry on,

   littoral - aquatic, bank, beach, berm, bordering, borderline, boundary, bounding, coast, coastal, coastline, deep-sea, determinant, determinative, determining,

   often enough - again and again, commonly, frequently, habitually, often, ordinarily, repeatedly, routinely, usually ,

   polio - German measles, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, anthrax, apoplexy, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black death, black fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, catalepsy, cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox,

   intonation pattern - accent, emphasis, ictus, inflection, intonation, modulation, pitch, thesis, tone ,

   tap-dance - clog, dance, foot, fox trot, hoof, hop, prance, shake, shuffle, skip, trip ,

   by degrees - bit by bit, by inches, by slow degrees, by snatches, drop by drop, foot by foot, grade by grade, gradually, in detail, in driblets, in instalments, in lots, in small doses, in snatches, inch by inch,