255 examples of hongs in sentences

" "What was your last ship?" "The Bombay Castle, London to Hong Kong; I wrecked her off Cape Mendez in a fog.

It is surprising to find that Manila will be only forty-one miles nearer New York via Panama than it is via Suez, and the saving on a journey to Hong Kong will be no more than 245 miles.

Then it had been sold at auction,some Chinaman had bought it,it had been shipped to Canton or Hong Kong,some one of the thousand "artists" of China Street or the Victoria Road had copied it for the American market.

We are not in the land of pagodas, junks, flower boats, yamens, hongs and porcelain towers.

He derives his office from the 'Hai-hong,' or the superior local magistrate.

They get certificates of office from the 'Hai-hong,' and on the change of that functionary it is necessary to get the stamp of his successor attached to their certificates.

He united with the Hai-hong, a high civil official, in issuing a proclamation, warning the people to be on their guard against poison, which wicked people were circulating.

There they were distributed among the foreign hongs, one to each hong.

There they were distributed among the foreign hongs, one to each hong.

(Hong is pigeon English for business house.)

SEE Mainwaring, Daniel G. HONG, EDNA.

Muskego boy, by Edna Hong & Howard Hong.

Edna Hong & Howard Hong (A); 4Dec70; R495941.

Edna Hong & Howard Hong (A); 4Dec70; R495941.

SEE Hong, Edna. HOOKER, EDWARD NILES.

CHIN, STANLEY HONG. Two lands for Ming. SEE Fowler, Virginia.

"Hit seem lak months 'fore we roun' de Cape an' head back north on de Pacific, an' hit seem lak a year 'fore we drop anchor in Hong Kong.

"Nex' comes orders from de admiral in Hong Kong to sail fer Rio Janeiro.

We know how to elude the blockade, how to beard Viceroy Yeh; and in one of the great hongs on the Canton River we will give you a short lecture on the virtues of Souchong and flowery Pekoe.

Beside the hongs in Canton, which I shall presently speak of, there are large buildings, styled "pack-houses," containing all the apparatus for curing.

" Perhaps a notice of the great hongs will prove more interesting to you.

On descending, we find that a servant has placed for us on a superb table in one of the pretty rooms cups of delicious tea,it being the custom in all the hongs to offer the beverage to strangers at all times.

The teas are not generally brought to the hongs until sold.

Before sale they are stored in warehouses, chiefly on Honan Island, opposite the city; but after disposal the large-sized chests are carried into the hongs, where they are sorted and repacked into smaller boxes, according to the wants of the purchaser.

The principal business is of course held with the tea merchants themselves, not those who come from the North, but the Cantonese, while the minor business of all the hongs is in a great measure conducted through the "pursers," or foremen, who act between the Chinese and the foreigners, bringing in the accounts to the shipping-houses, and receiving the orders for cargoes.

255 examples of  hongs  in sentences