Meanings

Yours Sincerely ...

Happy New Year

listening attentively

Dear Sir or Madam

humbly presenting

respectfully

carefully made

self restraint

close confinement (in one's barracks)

imprudent

stern

informing with respect

respectfully written

slight flaw

conscientious

respectful comments

carefully selected

sober and honest

confinement to one's home

very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style)