The Mystic Flowery Land: A Personal NarrativeLuzac, 1896 - 231 pages |
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... hand and canvas in the other , almost forced the unfortunate skipper through the glass skylight , so eager was he to paint his bewhiskered face , for the small sum of " six dolla . " But in vain did he gaze with rapture on the sun ...
... hand and canvas in the other , almost forced the unfortunate skipper through the glass skylight , so eager was he to paint his bewhiskered face , for the small sum of " six dolla . " But in vain did he gaze with rapture on the sun ...
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... hands of the Chinese compradore , who gave him his proper fare - ten cents ; and he left without a murmur , to wait for me . An obsequious aud attentive " boy " ( all male servants , whether young or old , are called " boys " in China ) ...
... hands of the Chinese compradore , who gave him his proper fare - ten cents ; and he left without a murmur , to wait for me . An obsequious aud attentive " boy " ( all male servants , whether young or old , are called " boys " in China ) ...
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... hand side , at the foot of the bridge , and at the commencement of the Bund , lay the enclosure of the British Consulate , which is separated from the roadway by a low wall , and , from the Vice Consul's and Interpreter's private ...
... hand side , at the foot of the bridge , and at the commencement of the Bund , lay the enclosure of the British Consulate , which is separated from the roadway by a low wall , and , from the Vice Consul's and Interpreter's private ...
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... hand , and the deft hands of generations of successors . But he and they would never succeed . For it is decreed by fate that , until the life - blood of a young and innocent maid is mixed with the molten metal , the casting will never ...
... hand , and the deft hands of generations of successors . But he and they would never succeed . For it is decreed by fate that , until the life - blood of a young and innocent maid is mixed with the molten metal , the casting will never ...
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... hand is raised . A shriek rends the great stillness - the liquid metal hisses - the multitude waver - and there is a great murmur . Headlong into the seething metal , poor Ko - ai has disappeared . One of her attendants rushes forward ...
... hand is raised . A shriek rends the great stillness - the liquid metal hisses - the multitude waver - and there is a great murmur . Headlong into the seething metal , poor Ko - ai has disappeared . One of her attendants rushes forward ...
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