79 examples of yin in sentences

Have the State carriages like those of the Yin princes.

"In the reign of the last king of the Yin dynasty," Confucius I said, "there were three men of philanthropic spirit:the viscount of Wei, who withdrew from him; the viscount of Ki, who became his bondsman; and Pi-kan, who reproved him and suffered death.

Each lady of a noble line A Yin or Keih seemed born.

The guilty yin was o' my ain family.

"My lass, I've gi'en ye all the love any yin could gi'e his ain bairn.

Which yin I dinna ken.

They took us, the officers of the divisional staff, to a hut, where we were offered our choice of tea or a wee hauf yin.

At various times, different towns were made into the capital city; Yin-ch'ü, their last capital and the only one which has been excavated, was their sixth capital.

Tsou Yen's basic ideas had their root in earlier Chinese speculations: the doctrine that all that exists is to be explained by the positive, creative, or the negative, passive action (Yang and Yin) of the five elements, wood, fire, earth, metal, and water (Wu hsing).

Yin Huan-chang discussed most recently Lung-shan culture and the mound-dwellers.

p. 180: The best study of "family privileges" (yin) in general is by E.A. Kracke, Civil Service in Early Sung China, Cambridge, Mass. 1953.

I could see he was but a salt yin, and none to be fearing.

I'll see a queer yin in the street, maybe.

And when I can't no one else can; Mrs. Lauder has tried, often enough, and laughed at me for a salt yin while she did it.

I'm asked ower and again to sing it the noo, so I'm thinking perhaps ye'll ken the yin

"At leastI'm fond o' all the lassies, but I only love yin.

" She's a great yin aboot the hoose, is Mrs. Lauder.

I'm a great yin for consistency.

Ane day he went tae see an agent aboot a hoose that was just the yin to suit him.

Yang and Yin; a novel of an American doctor in China.

If I was trustin' a girl, I'll bet ye a bob she wud turn oot to be yin o' the sort that pinches a chap's wages afore they're warmed in his pooch, an' objec's to him smokin' a fag, an' tak's the huff if he calls her fig-face.'

the shopa terrible falsehood, dearie!an' gaed to catch the sax o'clock train, an' catched the yin afore it. . . .

Oh, they weemen!' 'If ye hadna a face for pies already, I wud gi'e ye yin!' 'Ah, but ye daurna strike a man that's been wounded in his country's service.

Weel, gi'e Maggie yin on the squeaker frae me, an' tell her no to greet for me, because I'm no worthy o' her pure unselfish love, etceetera.

Is that how it affects you?' He looked hard at her. 'My! ye're a game yin!'

79 examples of  yin  in sentences