...ronicle of the Book of Chinn by heart. It lies in a worn old ledger on the Chinese lacquer table behind the piano in the Devonshire home, and the chil... ...nd when Mr. Wardrop saw the dismal little harbour, with its ragged line of Chinese junks, its one crazy tug, and the boat-building shed that, under th... ...y knows the use o’ copper. They ought to have cut away the pipes. And with Chinese junks coming here, too. It’s a special interposition o’ Providence.... ...ooked out with moist eyes and nostrils that dilated joyously. The South of pagodas and palm-trees, the overpopu- lated Hindu South, was done with. Her...

...les. Now for the Piquant Expressions. “PIQUANT EXPRESSIONS. ‘The Venerable Chinese novel Ju-Kiao-Li.’ Good! By introducing these few words with dexter... ... evince your intimate acquaintance with the language and literature of the Chinese. With the aid of this you may either get along without either Arabi... ...nd in the commencement of the third volume of that admirable and venerable Chinese novel the Jo-Go-Slow. In my solitary walk through, the city I had t... ... V olumes understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, and so re-read it from the end to the beginning, but with no more ... ...lding what, in the ancient Amriccan, was denominated “churches” —a kind of pagoda instituted for the worship of two idols that went by the names of We... ... us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it; or a Down- East or Dutch Pagoda, or a pig-sty, or an ingenious little bit of fancy work, either Esqu...

...ind how people always left his life. He thought about what he "knew" of this Chinese friend, Yang Lin, if he knew anything at all: he was adopted and ... ...ll he had to do was put his eyes on someone at a bar called "Trance," around Pagoda Park, or at the movie theatre behind it and off they went to his h... ... he arrived at the express bus terminal, he took the subway to Chongno. Near Pagoda Park, he went to Hardee's . The break from Hanguk food (particular... ...of the many miscellaneous parables in the thickets of pages that comprised a Chinese literature anthology; however, she had never radiated the enlight... ...texture he sought in saunas and the bathroom of the dirty movie theatre near Pagoda Park in Chongno Sam Ga. Clean of words, no hurt would ensue. The d... ... really. Stretching and thinking my weird thoughts. Yeah, I went through a Chinese fast food drive-thru, thanks. What about you? Huh? You are break...

...s 172 Farmer's festival calendar 172 * Modern annual festivals 173 * Chinese New Year 175 Songkran 176 New Year of Thai culture 176 * Prog... ...n. Near the close of the rainy season thirty years ago, I stepped out of a Chinese hotel in Sob Tui, near Lampang station, and crossed the road to the... ...ed by white flags or pennants both in Thailand and in Finland, why Lampang Chinese and Orthodox Karelians hang pennants on the graves of their loved o... ...rs in our village also grow for sale. Of vegetables, I now grow bakhardon (Chinese leaves), garlic and onions for sale. Bakhardon is very profitable. ... ...e from abroad. It's expensive, as it comes all the way from Canada. We are Chinese and we have taken out a lot of debt. My father set up this factory ... ...s and chains of densely built villages with their palm trees, temples and pagodas, stupas. Here, the open vista does not extend to the horizon, but ... ...ead verses of the offering rite over the food tray. After leaving the sand pagoda, people lit a taper on the 'candle altar' located in the compound in...

...he shield of leaves dropped away briefly and Morris saw that the wagon was moving along on a road about 400 feet above a town with narrow streets and Chinese-style pagoda roofs. Some of the buildings were demolished and others were in flame. “That is Sam Neua, the actual town,” the third passenger informed. “Where was the camp then?” “Place called Xanthon. Just a few mi...

... three houses on the hill-top, one of which, being constructed on supposed Chinese principles of architecture, was known to its friends as “the Pagoda... ...posed Chinese principles of architecture, was known to its friends as “the Pagoda,” to its foes as “the Folly.” It had been long untenanted, but this ... ... which stretched over the 52 Magnum Bonum railings of the low wall of the pagoda garden. “O you appro- priate bird,—you surely ought not to be here!”... ...ts shaded border opened into the lane about ten yards from the gate of the Pagoda, as Colonel and Mrs. Brownlow and the post office laboured to call i... ...s in vain; Babie had her way; and they mounted to the highest stage of the pagoda, where the eaves and the twisted monsters that supported them were i... ... a title which became more and more applicable, in Kenminster eyes, to the Pagoda, and above all in those of its proper owner. Mrs. Robert Brownlow, i... ...lly well without disputes. There was a continual performance, endless as a Chinese tragedy, of Spenser’s Faery Queene, in which Elfie was always Glori... ...ou can’t shake more out of me. You might as well expect anything from that Chinese lantern. Hold hard. ’Tis not I—” “Don’t speak! You don’t know her! ...

...e to him whom it fits. I would fain say something, not so much concerning the Chinese and Sand wich Islanders as you who read these pages, who are sai... ...lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has bee... ...ok to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of m... ...s out the Esquimaux and the Patagonian, and embraces the populous Indian and Chinese villages; and thus, by a few years of philanthropic activity, the... ... pine, a shingle tree, or a more perfect hemlock than usual, standing like a pagoda in the midst of the woods; and many others I could mention. These ...

...a height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeepers, must write on their door lintels No cheating here,—w... ...pskin cloaks and wampum belts; phylacteries, stoles, albs; chlamydes, togas, Chinese silks, Afghaun shawls, trunk hose, leather breeches, Celtic hilib... ...luding those of Con stantinople and Samarcand: in most Colleges, except the Chinese Mandarin ones, I have studied, or seen that there was no studying... ...y have free course when they are empty. Even as, for Hindoo Worshippers, the Pagoda is not less sacred than the God; so do I too worship the hollow cl...