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"Tai" Quotes from Famous Books
... cool September morning in the days of the great Emperor Tai, twelve hundred and fifty years ago. And a great emperor was Tai-tsung, though few, if any, of my young readers ever heard his name. His splendid palace stood in the midst of lovely gardens in the great city of Chang-an,—that old, old city that for over two thousand years ... — Historic Girls • E. S. Brooks
... old Khayyam, and leave the Lot Of Kaikobad and Kaikhosru forgot: Let Rustum lay about him as he will, Or Hatim Tai cry ... — Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam
... males; they are strongly muscled, free from fat, swift in action, graceful in repose; and the women, though fatter and duller, are still comely animals. To judge by the eye, there is no race more viable; and yet death reaps them with both hands. When Bishop Dordillon first came to Tai-o-hae, he reckoned the inhabitants at many thousands; he was but newly dead, and in the same bay Stanislao Moanatini counted on his fingers eight residual natives. Or take the valley of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman ... — In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson
... question of the Chinese Concession. Apparently everybody had got concessions in China except the British, until one of our cleverest diplomatists stepped in and procured for us the most amazingly rich coalfield of Wei-hai-tai. The genius and foresight of this diplomatist—who had actually gone to China in the Long Vacation, and of his own initiative and out of his own head had evolved these concessions, which were soon to be ratified by a special ... — Bones in London • Edgar Wallace |
Words linked to "Tai" : White Tai, Zhuang, Yay, Kingdom of Thailand, Kadai, Thai, Tai Yuan, Chinese Shan, Khamti, Dehong Dai, tai chi chuan, Kadai language, Central Thai, Buyi, Saek, Nung, Asiatic, Thailand, Siam, Khuen, Shan, Tai Nuea, Xishuangbanna Dai, Bouyei, Tay, Asian, Tai Lue, Lao, Tho, Kam Muang |
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