Deaf by an outward obturation.

By the late 1930's some modern factories, built by outside interests and producing such goods as bricks, beer, and chinaware for export abroad, had already appeared in Tsuen Wan, a market town near Kowloon.

She runs after any man in uniform!

[…] at the last, famine and other necessities, caused them in the ende to strike sayle and let fall anker.