Kweilin
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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At Kweilin, Liuchow and Nanning, railway men have been too busy fighting one another to highball war supplies southward to Ho Chi Minh.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chungking, desperately hoping to make Kweilin the Stalingrad of Free China, worked mightily to stave off disaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the south, meanwhile, Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi continued his withdrawal down the Hankow-Canton railroad, finally set up field headquarters at Henyang, where the railroad branches out to Kweilin in Pai's home province of Kwangsi.
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
That’s why I think of Joy Luck as her Kweilin story.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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