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
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Luck of Roaring Camp made Harte's reputation; the humorous poem The Heathen Chinee made him a national figure.
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This genius nature has denied to the illustrious poet before you—but not to me, as I will now illustrate by declaiming the ‘Heathen Chinee.’
From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey
It would therefore be a great pity, says the Heathen Chinee, to waste the real article, although I doubt not the priests would infinitely prefer it.
From Round the World by Carnegie, Andrew
Nex' mornin' de meezles 'd done kivered me, an' den ef I didn't git dosted by de ole 'oman I'm a Chinee.
From Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings by Harris, Joel Chandler
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