But first she called the mandarin who was in charge of the. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
Lion City mandarin is firmly in charge of coining slogans. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: August 28, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Archives] Reference
The mandarin is great, but I understand why they are holding him back for the third film. From Wordnik.com. [Iron Man 2 – Whiplash Revealed! « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more] Reference
While it is known as a mandarin here, it may well be also known as a tangerine. From Wordnik.com. [Honey Murcott Mandarin Sorbet] Reference
Becoming a mandarin was the only way the child of a non-noble family could escape this cycle of injustice and fear. From Wordnik.com. [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]
The Chinese mandarin, which is an oriental symbol of married bliss and fidelity, has attracted birdwatchers and tourists since appearing on the banks of the River Severn. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
(more or less) to the so-called mandarin rooms, the best rooms of the place. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
The hat fanned over his shoulders across a garment identical to my own, with long "mandarin" sleeves and a hem that trailed the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreamthief's Daughter]
Your quite right Khan is a "mandarin" name comes from the name Hun, later pronounced as Haan as in Genghis Khan - who was a pagan by the way. From Wordnik.com. [Lionheart] Reference
This may be precisely as it should be -- the Founding Fathers famously thought that diplomacy required the kind of mandarin discretion that only the Executive Branch could employ. From Wordnik.com. [The U.S.' Iran Problem] Reference
I call the mandarin!. From Wordnik.com. [absolut liquor | My[confined]Space] Reference
"You see these have three pendants, so they show the mandarin was a gentleman of the third class under the emperor. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference
Across the lake the white swans glided, and two little "mandarin" ducks sidled up close to shore, regarding the moveless group of humans with bright and beady eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the Ashes] Reference
They speak the dialect of Peking, now regarded as the official or "mandarin" language, just as the dialect of Nanking was, so long as that city remained the capital of the empire. From Wordnik.com. [The Civilization of China] Reference
"mandarin," of course -- everybody in a Government office is. From Wordnik.com. [Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918] Reference
Meyer Lemons A less tart hybrid of mandarin oranges and lemons. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday Gift Guide: Food] Reference
He resembled a china mandarin in the costume of Louis Quatorze. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
Stannard's affinity for the mandarin Waugh shows in his allusive style. From Wordnik.com. [ON PARNASSUS FOR 15 MINUTES] Reference
"Some of the buttons on the mandarin hats are worth £30 or £40," he wrote. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of General Gordon] Reference
He wears black clothes, pants creased to a knife-edge, loose shirts with mandarin collars. From Wordnik.com. [Can Christoph Eschenbach and the National Symphony Orchestra give each other a fresh start?] Reference
The result was that his family was a plebeian one, from which no mandarin had ever sprung. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
Whether from fatigue, loss of sleep, or what, there I was, nervous as a lady, ducking like a mandarin. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
He still, however, rapped sonorously on my box, shaking his head from side to side like a china mandarin. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
And when the Chinese Army raised China's flag at the handover, did they wear mandarin coats and velvet slippers?. From Wordnik.com. [Killing Off Kipling] Reference
When the widow appeared before the mandarin, she denied that she knew anything of the cause of her husband's death. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
This mandarin was Shih-Kung, and a juster or more upright official did not exist in all the fair provinces of the Empire. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
But mandarin snippiness about student protesters and political correctness doesn't mean this is another boring right-wing altar call. From Wordnik.com. [A Real-Life Renaissance Man] Reference
Emperor, the mandarin was dragged unceremoniously through the gaping crowds that rushed from their doors to see the amazing spectacle. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
Besides he had received precise orders from the great mandarin, that this particular prisoner was to be treated as a danger to society. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
On his head rested a Manchu mandarin cap purchased in Chinatown and revised with ornament suitable for the insignia of the Soopreemest. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
The six servants and the mandarin filled all Marmaduke's seven pockets with the packs of fire-crackers, and tied one on Wienerwurst's tail. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
Its mandarin ruling class point out that a more responsive, populist government would find it harder to maintain this demanding growth strategy. From Wordnik.com. [Singapore's Sunny Face] Reference
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