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.

[…] the news and propaganda in imperialistic papers imported once a month by the mail-boat from the South lacked power because it lacked continuity and was stale.

The glare outside seemed to soak somehow through the green-chicked windows, making one's eyes ache and filling one's head with stuffiness.

The suit does not accuse Mrs. Arroyo of personally ordering the abuses, but contends that she had “command responsibility,” Bishop Marigza said.