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
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 Merwin, Henry Childs
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 Merwin, Henry Childs
"Me b'lieve Chinee joss pigeon, too," added Yen cheerfully.
From Mortmain by Train, Arthur Cheny
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