Chinee
Britishnoun
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Luck of Roaring Camp made Harte's reputation; the humorous poem The Heathen Chinee made him a national figure.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suppose you want to multipy twenty-five by thirty-six, Chinee system?
From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Henry Wallace Phillips
While his Plain Language from Truthful James, known as his "Heathen Chinee" poem, was very popular, his short stories in prose are his masterpieces.
From History of American Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
There is often in Bret Harte a subtle blending of satire and humor, notably in that masterpiece of satirical humor, the Heathen Chinee.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
The poem entitled Plain Language from Truthful James, or the Heathen Chinee, as it is popularly known, and as Bret Harte himself afterward called it, first appeared in the “Overland” for September, 1870.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
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