Chinee
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Characters from the prose and verse of the author are shown in bas-relief, including Salomy Jane, Yuba Bill, Tennessee's Partner, John Oakhurst and the Heathen Chinee.
From Fascinating San Francisco by Wood, Andrew Y.
Suppose you want to multipy twenty-five by thirty-six, Chinee system?
From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Phillips, Henry Wallace
But the Bret Harte of The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Heathen Chinee does not, of course, belong to Frimley; those were earlier successes which he never equalled later.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh
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