Use china in a sentence
Sentences starting with china
- China never wanted foreigners any more than foreigners wanted Chinamen, and on this question I am with the Boxers every time. [5]
- China seems to be accepting with hearty good-will the conventional laws which regulate commercial and social intercourse among the Western nations. [7]
Sentences ending with china
- The good American who hired me to go to his country is to pay me $12 a month, which is immense wages, you know--twenty times as much as one gets in China. [5]
- Sonya was in the ballroom looking after the packing of the glass and china. [2]
- I never had seen Cochin China! [5]
- A sitting hen on her nest is calm, but hopeful; she has faith that her eggs are not china. [4]
- It's like sending money to China. [9]
- I wonder if it's a way they have in China. [11]
- The common rat has conquered and beaten several other species throughout Europe, in parts of North America, New Zealand, and recently in Formosa, as well as on the mainland of China. [1]
- There was a great plenty of pictures on the walls, on the shelves of the mantelpiece, and around generally; where coigns of vantage offered were statuettes, and quaint and pretty gimcracks, and rare and costly specimens of peculiarly devilish china. [5]
- This tea is brought overland from China. [5]
- Apparently it was because at this late day they thought they had discovered a way to make it useful; for it had come to be believed that the Mississippi emptied into the Gulf of California, and therefore afforded a short cut from Canada to China. [5]
Sentences containing china two or more times
- Myrtle had to own that they used a good deal of china at her own home,--old china, which had been a hundred years in the family, some of it. [6]
More example sentences with the word china in them
- You do not wonder that China is today more like an herbarium than anything else. [4]
- Silver and China, with the Manners coat-of-arms, were laid out that had not seen the light for many along day. [9]
- And the dresser with her china and silver upon it, covered by years of dust. [9]
- I thought this was what Germany should do also without delay, and that France and all the other nations in China should follow suit. [5]
- In it I was shown a register of its members, with the dead and the date of their shipment to China duly marked. [5]
- And the mantel was now but a bit of a shelf, and held many things that seemed scarce at home on the rough and painted wood,--gold filigree; and China and Japan, and a French clock that ought not to have been just there. [9]
- Then he showed us the spread the Empire of China made on the map, and the room she took up in the world. [5]
- I have consciences to come all the way from China and Russia to see a person of that kind put through his paces, on a special occasion. [5]
- These people appear to be sitting on china eggs. [4]
- During its progress there came and went a missionary from China, a pianist, an English lady who had heard of the Institution, a Southern spinster with literary gifts, a youthful architect who had not built anything, and a young lawyer interested in settlement work. [9]
- They had piled their packing-boxes in the cellar, with broken chairs, broken china, and other household wrecks. [6]
- I already know the Admiral commanding in the China Seas and have promised to look in on him out there. [5]
- Everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore that imprint of newness found in the households of the newly married. [2]
- I published that story, and it became widely known in America, India, China, England--and the reputation it made for me has paid me thousands and thousands of dollars since. [5]
- Two or three steps down shuffled the Chinaman; then, as it were by accident, he stumbled and fell, the tray with the beautiful china crashing down to the feet of Joel Mazarine, followed by the tumbling, chirruping Li Choo. [11]
- The China Mail Steamer is getting ready and everybody says I am throwing away a fortune in not going in her. [5]
- I'd like to show you some of the crews I've had in the Pacific and the China Sea--but I'm at it again! [11]
- For a while she had stood beside Sonya while the china was being packed and tried to help, but soon gave it up and went to her room to pack her own things. [2]
- Anson Burlingame, U. S. Minister to China, and Gen. Van Valkenburgh, Minister to Japan, with their families and suites, have just arrived here en route. [5]
- Yung Wing, now returned to China, had conceived the idea of making an appeal to the Government of the United States for relief of his starving countrymen. [5]
- Behold America, the refuge of the oppressed from everywhere (who can pay fifty dollars' admission)--any one except a Chinaman--standing up for human rights everywhere, even helping China let people in free when she wants to collect fifty dollars upon them. [5]
- There is no reason to doubt the truth of this assertion, which is supported by some observations made in China by Mr. Swinhoe. [1]
- Money shall be raised--you shall go back to China you shall see your friends again. [5]
- Bringing the antique plate, china, and bric-a-brac, made in France when Henri Quatre was king, she fared away to Quebec, set the rude mansion in order, and was happy for a whole summer, as was her husband, the best of fishermen and sportsmen. [11]
- She hastened to place a table near to Orlando, for the tray which Li Choo had brought, and, as she did so, remarked with a shock at the cherished china upon the tray. [11]
- If they would only all go home, what a pleasant place China would be for the Chinese! [5]
- Keep your eye on the bull," he added, with a twinkle, "and don't let him break any more china than you can help. [9]
- At the left of the chimney was the great settle, or veille, covered with baize, "flourished" with satinettes, and spread with ferns and rushes, and above it a little shelf of old china worth the ransom of a prince at least. [11]
- There were suits of mail standing like ghosts in armour here and there, fantastic carvings brought from monkish cloisters, rusty weapons of various kinds, distorted figures in china and wood and iron and ivory: tapestry and strange furniture that might have been designed in dreams. [12]
- He is spoken of for the post of Minister to China, or Austria, and I hope will be appointed. [5]
- The mission was now threatened, and Yung Wing, knowing the high honor in which General Grant was held in China, believed that through him it might be saved. [5]
- If you have nothing but a rag-doll stuffed with sawdust, while one of your more fortunate little playmates has a costly China one, you should treat her with a show of kindness nevertheless. [5]
- There was also much china standing on the tables, and still more was being brought in from the storeroom. [2]
- At the Colonel's motion he took away the china and the silver, and removed the white cloth, and turned low the lights in the chandelier. [9]
- At breakfast one morning, after my aunt had poured Mr. Carvel's tea and made her customary compliment to the blue and gold breakfast china, my Uncle Grafton spoke up. [9]
- It is, however, more probable that these colours have been intensified through artificial selection, as this species has been carefully bred in China from a remote period. [1]
- For instance--However, I may go into that by and by, and also why Satan chose China for this excursion instead of another place; it would interrupt my tale to do it now. [5]
- There isn't one man in Washington, in civil office, who has the brains of Anson Burlingame--and I suppose if China had not seized and saved his great talents to the world, this government would have discarded him when his time was up. [5]
- But we have made a most creditable record in China in these days--our sound and level-headed administration has made a most creditable record over there, and there are some of the Powers that cannot say that by any means. [5]
- But by good luck his Excellency Anson Burlingame was there at the time, on his way to take up his post in China, where he did such good work for the United States. [5]
- This, being done, leaves but five full missions undisposed of--Rome, China, Brazil, Peru, and Chili. [7]
- They not only knew the Continent very well, but they had spent a winter in Egypt, lived a year in India, and seen something of China and much of Japan. [4]
- He had various kinds of colored and colorless wines and brandies, with unpronouncable names, imported from China in little crockery jugs, and which he offered to us in dainty little miniature wash-basins of porcelain. [5]
- A dainty bower it was, filled with the perfume of flowers, and rosy cupids disporting on the ceiling; and china and silver and gold filigree strewn about, with my tea-cups on the table. [9]
- This acknowledgment justly includes those consuls who, residing in Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Japan, China, and other Oriental countries, are charged with complex functions and extraordinary powers. [7]
- He might be in China, in Timbuctoo when the summons was delivered at his last or usual place of abode. [9]
- Satan had told him about our trip to China, and he had begged Satan to take him a journey, and Satan had promised. [5]
- The rebellion which has so long been flagrant in China has at last been suppressed, with the co-operating good offices of this Government and of the other Western commercial States. [7]
- One day I found myself in the interior of China with a few coolies and a man who I suspect was a ticket-of-leave Englishman. [9]
- The old man fell back into the hall-way from the crashing china and tumbling Oriental, who plunged out into the hall-way muttering and begging pardon, cursing his soul in good Chinese and bad English. [11]
- He would have done it in Europe or China if he had had the same chance. [5]
- I expect to do all this, but I expect to go to the States first--and from China to the Paris World's Fair. [5]
- I tried to disprove their assertion by gorging it with the best of terrestrial nourishment, until I became convinced that I was feeding the tea-plants of China, and then I gave over the attempt. [6]
- He wore a dim glass breastpin, which he called a "morphylitic diamond" --whatever that may mean--and said only two of them had ever been found --the Emperor of China had the other one. [5]
- He had to die, and with the old pagan philosophy, still practised in China and Japan, he chose the better way, to his mind. [11]
- My air-ship was delayed by a collision with a fellow from China loaded with the usual cargo of jabbering, copper-colored missionaries, and so I was nearly an hour on my journey. [5]
- Said he-- 'The cross of the Mysterious Avenger is known in Europe, in America, in China, in Siam, in the Tropics, in the Polar Seas, in the deserts of Asia, in all the earth. [5]
- It's cheeky, of course, to come to you like this so soon after, but for two years I've been looking forward up there in the China Sea to meeting you again. [11]
- A man of Cochin China "spoke with contempt of the wife of the English Ambassador, that she had white teeth like a dog, and a rosy colour like that of potato- flowers. [1]
- A rag of cloud on one page, as I remember, with a streak of red zigzagging out of it across the paper as naturally as a crack runs through a China bowl. [6]
- There was much clinking of borrowed spoons, which were to be carefully counted, and much clicking of borrowed china, which was to be tenderly handled, for nobody in the country keeps those vast closets full of such things which one may see in rich city-houses. [6]
- It is all China, now, and my sympathies are with the Chinese. [5]
- Why he left China I don't know, but I do chance to know that if another Chinky meets Li Choo carrying a basket on his shoulders, or a package in his hand, he kow-tows, and takes it away from him, and carries it himself. [11]
- My Old Blue China Cat remains there yet. [5]
- Why should not China be free from the foreigners, who are only making trouble on her soil? [5]
- When speaking to Chichagov, Kutuzov incidentally mentioned that the vehicles packed with china that had been captured from him at Borisov had been recovered and would be restored to him. [2]
- The populations ruled by Great Britain and China are about the same--400,000,000 each. [5]
- There was the buttery off that, with its meagre china and crockery, its window looking out on the field of rye, the little orchard of winter apples, and the hedge of cranberry bushes. [11]
- The china silk blouse was slightly open at the neck, suggesting the fullness of her throat; it clung to the outline of her shoulders. [9]
- Well, we have been making this "pi" for a hundred years; it seems to be a national dish in considerable favor with the rest of the world--even such ancient nations as China and Japan want a piece of it. [4]
- Twain, it will be observed, is suggestively silent about the Cochin China perjury. [5]
- Now they bore away sometimes till they get half-way to China, and don't seem to strike anything worth speaking of. [8]
- In a desperate attempt to realize what had happened to her, she found herself staring hard at the open china closet, at Aunt Mary's best gold dinner set resting on the pink lace paper that had been changed only last week. [9]
- Clemens was sick at the time, but Anson Burlingame, who was in Honolulu, on the way to China, had him carried in a cot to the hospital, where he could interview the surviving sailors and take down their story. [5]
- Captain Debney, indignant at the lack of etiquette, and a little suspicious also now--for there was no Hornet in the Pacific Squadron, though there was a Hornet, he knew, in the China Squadron--was coming to visit the discourteous commander. [11]
- And it is as mysterious that China, having gunpowder and the art of printing, is not today like Germany. [4]
- The dining-room was an odd shape, and was wainscoted in oak; it had a tiled fireplace and (according to Maude) the "sweetest" china closet built into the wall. [9]
- Very favorable relations also continue to be maintained with Turkey, Morocco, China, and Japan. [7]
- Hence, in China, a man's front yard, back yard, or any other part of his premises, is made his family burying ground, in order that he may visit the graves at any and all times. [5]
- The Marchioness is a Genie, and having had a wager with another Genie about who is the handsomest young man alive, and the worthiest to be the husband of the Princess of China, has brought me away, room and all, to compare us together. [12]
- Janet compromised, wearing a blouse of china silk hitherto reserved for "best. [9]
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