Chinee
Britishnoun
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In 1923, riots attended her first public recitation of a clamjamfry called Fa�ade: The sound of the onycha When the phoca has the pica In the palace of the Queen Chinee!
From Time Magazine Archive
Luck of Roaring Camp made Harte's reputation; the humorous poem The Heathen Chinee made him a national figure.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the contrary what he wished to remark, and like the Heathen Chinee his language was plain, was that, "If the Bill becomes an Act it will be born with a rope round its neck."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 by Various
Irving could by no possibility ever have written the "Heathen Chinee," or those other bits of compressed humor called Poems; but Bret Harte is not exactly a lineal descendant of Irving.
From Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng
Without an instant's delay Hugh put his foot in the bucket and signed to the Chinee to lower him.
From Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)
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