Sining
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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From Sining, capital of his own Chinghai province, where he has been lord and governor since 1936, he sent a column of his Moslem cavalry to Lanchow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Obrutchev and Grum Grijmaïlo took the usual route from Kanchau to Sining.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry
Kinshun, who had now been joined by Liu Kintang, the taotai of the Sining district and a man of proved energy and capacity, resolved to concentrate all his efforts on its capture.
From China by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
The charge seems to have been based on slender evidence, but it sufficed to cause the banishment of this personage and all his family to Sining.
From China by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
I have supposed Sining to be also the Zilm of which Mr. Shaw heard at Yarkand, and am answerable for a note to that effect on p.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry
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