Lexicographical Neighbors of Chines
Literary usage of Chines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1862)
"But it seems clear—both from ^Es- chines (in his earliest speech) and
Demosthenes—first, that the envoy from ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1872)
"... while the nut-hunters do it from necessity, wading in three feet of mud for
five cents a day. No women ever appear as actresses in chines« theatres. ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1874)
"Peruvian economists are of opinion that, " under the existing order of things,
the introduction of chines* labor is indispensable to the prosperity of the ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1866)
"chines, or rather induction coils. The objection was, that these induction coils
sent their electricity ..."
5. The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and by Richard Phillips (1820)
"chines B. 339. The Birman empire, of which the rapi- tnls are Л va and Pegu,
separates China from • '¡ia. Persia, celebrated in ancient history, ..."
6. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"... The beasts' huge breasts, bearing their castled chines Numidian archery, (and
in each tower, five soldiers,) Him thinks, should needs be broken, ..."
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