jin
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The recipes rely on two main ingredients: jin and xi.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022
Pollard and Liu propose these two alloys, which could have been prefabricated as ingots and distributed to bronze foundries, are jin and xi.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022
The dish, called khao kan jin and often eaten as a snack in northern Thailand, suggests a blood sausage with the ratios radically recalibrated, more rice than pork.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2018
The wiry team captain and a first baseman, he carries himself like a yakyu jin, someone who devotes himself to baseball, not unlike a devotee of the martial arts.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2011
Our night's stop was at Pao-an-ying,—like so many other hamlets of this region, little more than a camp-village, and showing its origin in the termination "ying" or "jin," meaning regiment.
From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Kendall, Elizabeth Kimball
I jins that puro mush better ’n I jins tute, for I was a’ter yeck o’ his raklis yeckorus; he had kushti-dick raklis, an’ he was old Knight Locke.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey
I del it some ballovas to hatch his bavol and I bikened it for 9 bar, to a rye that you jins kushto.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey
He ran away from his Massa en his Daddy en jins the U.S.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives by Work Projects Administration
I defied the whole host of jins and afreets; I cared not for Shaitan himself.
From The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia by Ferryman, A. F. Mockler
In it there are jins, demons, and peris.
From The Brown Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew
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