When they demanded Oddy's licence, they were also demanding a bribe and a free battered sav too from Oddy.

In the later Ching period there were at least three military installations on Lantau 一 at Tung Chung, Tai O and Fan Lau, another on Cheung Chau, and a considerable number of troops in the Kowloon Walled City.

[T]he discoverie of the yron and steele mines.

A clamour of thickwits wanting to board the train hadn't the sense to let passengers off before trying to wrestle their way on, thrusting suitcases and rucksacks up the step and against my shins the moment I opened the door.