Kweilin
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A sign outside the chief bookstore in the city of Kweilin advertises a ten-volume set of The Book of History, a newly rehabilitated Confucian classic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the fantastic mountain shapes of Kweilin spread even more fantastic rumors: the sour-tasting new soy sauce is said to be made from human hair.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only the 60-mile gap around Kweilin stood between the Japs and their immediate strategic objectives in China�a continuous 2,000-mile front and communications system from Siberia to the South China Sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like the great U.S. base at Kweilin, built by the hand labor of thousands of Chinese, Tanchuk was scorched by Chennault's airmen before they left it.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are my mother’s twin daughters from her first marriage, little babies she was forced to abandon on a road as she was fleeing Kweilin for Chungking in 1944.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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