The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.

And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.

His agonous torture, at the hands of his captors, seemed to last for ages.

Although the mainland and Taiwan are yet to be reunited, they belong to one and same China, which is an indivisible whole.