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"Yang" Quotes from Famous Books

... made I hired a man and a donkey. The donkey was my passport to respectability, and I was more comfortable too, being able to take more bedding with me. I was warned against going to Ch'ao Yang, sixty miles, the roads being represented as unsafe; but I went and found no trouble, though there was a severe famine in the district. I spent a day each at two market towns on the way, and two days ...

— James Gilmour of Mongolia - His diaries, letters, and reports • James Gilmour

... before. A birds'-nest soup for my lady in the great house on the hill; birds' nests brought from the rocks where the waves dash, and the birds feel themselves very safe. But "Such a delicious soup!" said Madam Faw-Choo, and Yang-lo, her son, sent the fisherman again to the black rocks ...

— The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball - That Floats in the Air • Jane Andrews

... called—could have been easily put down in the beginning, but ministers in China are slow to move, and it soon became a real danger to the empire. The great object of the rebels was to gain possession of Shanghai, the centre of European trade, built in the midst of canals and rivers, with the great Yang-tse-kiang at hand to carry into the interior of China the goods of foreign merchants of all countries that come to its harbour across the Pacific. Pirate vessels, too, haunted its shores, ready to pounce upon the rich traders, and when their prizes were captured, they went swiftly away, ...

— The Red Book of Heroes • Leonora Blanche Lang

Words linked to "Yang" : mainland China, yin, principle, Cathay, People's Republic of China, Communist China, Red China, PRC, rule, china, Yang Chen Ning