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  • crowd would give way, often with cheers and hurrahs. Many were drunk, the Westerner noticed. But, too, he noticed that many others, perfectly sober from an...
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  • Peking who accused him of being an oppressor of the people and an ally of Westerners. These voices probably influenced Emperor Hsüan-tsung in recalling Ch'i-ying...
    252 bytes (3,612 words) - 07:41, 11 May 2021
  • as truly as an orchid. She certainly was exquisite. No wonder that big Westerner—that Babe Gladden, as they called him—was so crazy over her. Thus his...
    74 KB (12,994 words) - 19:52, 12 September 2023
  • conversational autobiography from the mixed career of "Uncle Mac," a genuine Westerner, who went from Indiana in '55 when strenuousness was more a reality than...
    1 KB (1,278 words) - 10:33, 30 December 2020
  • Hong merchant, Wu Ping-chien [q. v.]. Like his father, he was known to Westerners as Howqua. In 1822, at the age of thirteen (sui), he obtained the hsiu-ts'ai...
    259 bytes (1,124 words) - 16:42, 24 June 2021
  • suggesting that Westerners especially are being targeted for terrorist acts, but a terrorist campaign specifically directed at Westerners has not developed...
    12 KB (1,882 words) - 20:18, 27 September 2022
  • "In that case, just drop the mister from my name," drawled the young westerner. "Joe tells me you have a mine up here. My father has one, too--the Mary...
    10 KB (1,929 words) - 23:15, 14 April 2012
  • Nature—that is to say, not artistes. It is impossible, I believe, for a Westerner to reproduce their curious gradations of pitch and tricks of voice production;...
    8 KB (1,440 words) - 01:26, 31 December 2020
  • ignorance of his type made guess that this steel-eyed, close-knit young Westerner—or was he a Southerner?—would be impervious to appeals founded upon the...
    20 KB (3,802 words) - 19:30, 16 January 2022
  • military spread of Islam in the seventh through tenth centuries. Many Westerners are familiar only with the characterization in the popular press of jihad...
    362 bytes (2,979 words) - 03:01, 19 October 2023
  • name!" "Oh—mine's Graves—Tom Graves!" Now, for the excuse of the young Westerner, be it said that all his life, though he had met plenty of Englishmen...
    14 KB (2,494 words) - 10:48, 9 January 2020
  • propaganda of syndicalism. Against this two-headed Eagle of land-power the Westerners and the Islanders must struggle. Even in their own peninsulas and ​islands...
    336 bytes (1,010 words) - 23:37, 26 December 2012
  • Many stories are told to show how absolutely and instinctively your true Westerner ignores the Eastern States and cities. Here is one of the most characteristic...
    398 bytes (2,208 words) - 12:00, 9 January 2016
  • institutions. By his birth at Florida, Missouri, 30 November, 1835, he was a Middle-Westerner; but by his inheritance from the restless, sanguine, unprosperous Virginian...
    60 KB (9,767 words) - 02:46, 31 December 2020
  • with them only for reasons of political and economic convenience. The Westerners viewed the East with suspicion and resentment. The political bond between...
    276 bytes (14,074 words) - 01:21, 27 June 2012
  • of elaborate dresses and clothes. Of course, in point of health, the Westerners are far superior to us. In the West, men of forty years and women of fifty...
    25 KB (4,653 words) - 13:00, 27 November 2022
  • inquired. "Upon the fact that to the virtues and merits of the civilised Westerner there has become historically added—though this is not his chief point—a...
    13 KB (2,324 words) - 19:06, 27 June 2023
  • even the bare facts of his life, have all been overlooked by Chinese and Westerners alike. One possible exception to this is a reference to a Jên-shên t'u...
    246 bytes (974 words) - 20:48, 26 May 2021
  • meted out to rebellious natives of Kwangtung, he came to believe that Westerners might be brought to terms, if not by force, at least by arrogance, obstruction...
    253 bytes (1,704 words) - 21:22, 28 June 2021
  • to change them. If in some way this study will serve to bring before Westerners a fair understanding of the great rebellion, and of the man to whose devotion...
    338 bytes (1,300 words) - 17:57, 15 August 2019
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