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Jokai

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[yaw-koi] / ˈjɔ kɔɪ /

noun

  1. Maurus or Mór 1825–1904, Hungarian novelist.


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A broker receiving an order in rubbers may have to rush out and buy some Bah Lias, Gula Kalump, or Linggi, while in teas he must know Budla Beta, Chargola, Jokai, Pabbojan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jokai is one of the most popular of the Hungarian prose writers of fiction that sprang up a few years before the late war.

From Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Mór Jókai

The study of Maurice Jokai, the great Hungarian romancer, is a perfect museum of valuable souvenirs and rare antiquities.

From Methods of Authors by Hugo Erichsen

Besides his romances, Jokai has written a score or so of volumes of short stories, which, in the opinion of many good Magyar critics, contain some of his most notable work.

From Tales From J?kai by M?r J?kai

Fluttering hurriedly to the doorway, Aunt Agatha stared in horror at the littered room and Hunch, the latter no reassuring sight at his best, and thence with fascinated gaze at Jokai of Vienna.

From Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple

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