| 1 | No one wants to turn kids into household drudges. | |
| 2 | Yet another treaty guaranteed the resident ambassador, ceded Kowloon - a bit of the mainland opposite Hong Kong island - to Britain, and compelled China to let Chinese coolies migrate on British ships. | |
| 3 | She's the family drudge, poor little soul - a Cinderella without a fairy godmother. | |
| 4 | They dug trenches, toiled in docks and railway yards or worked in arms factories for the allies. | |
| 5 | He was an Indian, a black Dravidian coolie, almost naked, and he could not have been dead many minutes. |