Chinee
Britishnoun
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Luck of Roaring Camp made Harte's reputation; the humorous poem The Heathen Chinee made him a national figure.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1923, riots attended her first public recitation of a clamjamfry called Fa�ade: The sound of the onycha When the phoca has the pica In the palace of the Queen Chinee!
From Time Magazine Archive
Irving could by no possibility ever have written the "Heathen Chinee," or those other bits of compressed humor called Poems; but Bret Harte is not exactly a lineal descendant of Irving.
From Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng
Afóng, our olo cook down stairs, Make teachee Maly Chinee players:23 Say, if my chin-chin Fô24—oh joy!—
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various
It would therefore be a great pity, says the Heathen Chinee, to waste the real article, although I doubt not the priests would infinitely prefer it.
From Round the World by Carnegie, Andrew
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