take advantage of one's or somebody else's power to do evils(the evildoes are like foxes in the city and rats in the temple)

hanker for

easily overcome

eine Gelegenheit verpassen

speak straight from one's heart

surpassing all others(cut a brilliant figure)

eloquent in speech

ghosts and monsters

(of food) leftovers(leavings; remnants of a meal)

tower above one's generation

huddle(slight over)

grievous wrong(grievance which has not been redressed)

place obstacles in the way(come between; create difficulties)

put one bed on top of another

be above the common and enter the Holy Land

thousands and thousands

stupid

lovingly pathetic

without jittering

a scene of devastation everywhere