Example Sentences

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He is the only white man to my knowledge ever to become a Chinese Mason, which is considered among Chinamen a great honor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every few days a new opera is presented, in Chinese, by Chinamen and Chinawomen artists and singers, for a Chinese audience and entirely in the Chinese manner.

From Time Magazine Archive

And now again the boy ventured to look up, but he could see nothing of the two Chinamen.

From The Bradys' Chinese Clew The Secrect Dens of Pell Street by Doughty, Francis Worcester

But the crowd was nearly all men—Mexicans, Chinamen, American ranchers and tourists, Germans, Negroes from Jamaica, Filipinos, Hindus with turbans.

From The Desert Fiddler by Hamby, William H. (William Henry)

At half-past eleven we all went to church, and after the Litany there were sixteen Dyaks from Murdang, six Chinamen, and six little children baptized.

From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by McDougall, Henriette