You are feeblings. I am your master. You can't bring a squeal out of me. You think it remarkable, for you know how easily you would squeal.
In the winter of 1926 my mother, eldest sister, Madame K'ung and I left Shanghai for Hankow to visit our brother T.V. and our other sister. Hankow and Wuchang, the twin cities in eastern Central China, often shortened to the acronym Wuhan, made ever famous in Chinese history and folklore by the tales of the Three Kingdoms, are situated on the opposite banks of the Yangtze River. Wuchang in that year became the provisional situs of the Nationalist Government while Hankow was where most of the executive government offices were located.
A verb is typically described as active when its subject is the agent or actor. By contrast, a verb is said to be passive when the subject does not perform the action, but is the patient, target, or undergoer of the action.
The three women ran past an almirah and entered a godown.