She loved tribbing and knew that this was going to be a great experience.

The friar was hobbling the same way too.

When teams play now they verse each other. Who did you verse? (Forget whom. It's long dead.) We're versing you next. Pity the Latin scholar who might feel the loss of versus more keenly than many.

Almost invariably, the least affluent lived in an area of the International Settlement called Hongkew, a riverside section also heavily populated by Japanese. This was primarily a commercial area, not grand international commerce as on the Bund, but local trading: farmers' markets, hat shops, pickle shops, and Chinese and Japanese department stores. The cost of living in Hongkew was a third less than in other parts of the Settlement.