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
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
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
Afóng, our olo cook down stairs, Make teachee Maly Chinee players:23 Say, if my chin-chin Fô24—oh joy!—
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various
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