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!
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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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I went to the Sandwich Islands, and when I returned, after several years, Harte was famous as the author of the Heathen Chinee.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs
In the September number of the Overland Monthly, 1870, of which magazine Mr. Harte was then editor, appeared "Plain Language from Truthful James," or "The Heathen Chinee," as the poem was afterwards called.
From A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country by Beasley, Thomas Dykes
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
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