Chinee
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
The house-boat Heathen Chinee lay but a short distance off, and Scrymgeour could see the owner gazing after his daughter placidly, a pipe between his lips.
From My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke by Prendergast, Maurice Brazil
Without an instant's delay Hugh put his foot in the bucket and signed to the Chinee to lower him.
From Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)
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