from afar(over a great distance)

A makeshift to tide over a present difficulty

halls for the performance of dances and songs

Warm and intimate

be different in thousands of ways

till kingdom come(without end)

stir up trouble about nothing

a giant of literature

internal congestion, external irritation

waste time

Feel helpless

looking forward to with eager expectancy

whimper

a cog in the wheel

a wild story(tales of the long bow)

with both civil and military ability

a newly widowed young lady

cut no figure(go for very little)

be accomplished with both the pen and sword

have neither shape nor shadow