indubitability(be past all doubt)

tremulous

The things are still there but men are no more the same ones.

fast approaching one's doom

have an excessive fear out of misgivings

a meal without rice―impossible for lacking the most essentials(make bricks without straw)

taste like chicken ribs(be of little or no value)

matchless(be unexcelled; have nothing superior to; without equal)

Two of a trade never agree.

The time is not yet ripe.

the civil officials are indolent and the military(frivolons,dissipated and gluttonous life of civil and military officialdom)

short (of stature)(be short in trunk and four limb)

be off the track(err from the right path)

My heart is heavy.

crooked(askew; be shapeless and twisted)

the writing mirrors the writer(style is an index of the mind; the style is the man himself)

all dispersed(in piecemeal fashion)

stand towering like a mountain

crooked(shapeless and twisted)

unsteady(irregular)