The Mystic Flowery Land: A Personal NarrativeLuzac, 1896 - 231 pages |
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... foreign devil , " as they universally denominate all foreigners . Hence the number and frequency of collisions between European and native craft , generally with disastrous results to the latter . But the busy mind does not dwell for ...
... foreign devil , " as they universally denominate all foreigners . Hence the number and frequency of collisions between European and native craft , generally with disastrous results to the latter . But the busy mind does not dwell for ...
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... foreign devil " ( fan - quai ) who was born with such despicably barbarous notions , who is always rudely peering ahead into the impenetrable future , instead of looking reverently back and living like an exemplary son of Han and ...
... foreign devil " ( fan - quai ) who was born with such despicably barbarous notions , who is always rudely peering ahead into the impenetrable future , instead of looking reverently back and living like an exemplary son of Han and ...
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... foreign Manchoo - Tartar rulers of China , I have always liked and respected the polite and peace - loving hereditary Chinese , and especially admired their ladies- little imagining , however , in my wildest dreams , that one of them ...
... foreign Manchoo - Tartar rulers of China , I have always liked and respected the polite and peace - loving hereditary Chinese , and especially admired their ladies- little imagining , however , in my wildest dreams , that one of them ...
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... foreign feeling that seemed to exist there manifesting itself in sundry brickbats and other missiles which came hurtling about the boat in a very suggestive manner - we thought it prudent not to stop , so proceeded on our course with ...
... foreign feeling that seemed to exist there manifesting itself in sundry brickbats and other missiles which came hurtling about the boat in a very suggestive manner - we thought it prudent not to stop , so proceeded on our course with ...
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... foreign parts , Related legends , or , with dominoes , Sought to retrieve their losses on the road , While list'ning to the songs and lore of those Who told weird stories when the toils of day Had ceased , and all the joys of rest began ...
... foreign parts , Related legends , or , with dominoes , Sought to retrieve their losses on the road , While list'ning to the songs and lore of those Who told weird stories when the toils of day Had ceased , and all the joys of rest began ...
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