The yamen is a model of neatness.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

The nearest yamen for reporting big crimes was in Jinti.    From Wordnik.com.  [the secret sense]

Malicious placards are posted before every yamen and temple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.] Reference

And what would the yamen official do when he heard that the foreigners had been robbed by their own kind?.    From Wordnik.com.  [the secret sense]

Its main entrance is large and imposing, and the great gates suggest those of the yamen of some high official.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference

In order to make it easy for Shung whilst he was in prison, his mother had to spend large sums in bribing every one connected with the yamen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference

As soon as the warders had admitted the waiting crowd outside, the soldiers, advancing at a run, quickly reached the yamen, and arrested the Prefect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference

For two weeks Ida, with some other Chinese girls, was in hiding in the home of a friendly carpenter, while the missionaries were hidden in the governor's yamen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notable Women of Modern China] Reference

Close to the Mission is the yamen of the Chentai or.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

The sun was darkened when I went to the Prefect's yamen.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

The yamen fellow turned back at me and chuckled rudely to himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across China on Foot] Reference

Man Hsien is the last yamen place before reaching the British border.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across China on Foot] Reference

One was so run down and placed in his yamen, together with her big wrestling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beasts, Men and Gods] Reference

During his residence he had built for himself a splendid yamen of granite and marble.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

All the way from Chungking I had been accompanied by yamen-runners without knowing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

No sooner was I seated at an inn than two messengers from the yamen called for my passport.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

When the yamen is crowded with people I am provided with a boiled fish and a pair of chop-sticks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

There was great difficulty in inducing the yamen to take action, but at last the wife was arrested.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

The mob seem half inclined to pursue us even inside the precincts of the yamen, but the authoritative voice of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

The "slit" he made on entering the yamen needs to be repaired, and on him devolves the necessity of "sewing it up.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Historic China, and other sketches] Reference

The officer takes my passport to the yamen, and ere leaving the room, pantomimically advises me to go to sleep again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

An hour or so is spent waiting in the yamen next morning, apparently for the gratification of visitors continually arriving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

Burma and China, were here, disputing with clerks, yamen-runners, and chair-coolies for a sight of my photographs and curiosities.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

At the ferry we meet the officer who first ordered the soldiers to take me in charge, and who now accompanies us back to the yamen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

The City prison is in the Hsien's yamen, but permission to enter was refused me, though the missionary has frequently been admitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

It was market day in Santa, and the accustomed crowd gathered round me as I stood in the open square in front of the Sawbwa's yamen.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

The camels with their packs already filled the yamen court-yard and the men only awaited the arrival of their horses from the plains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beasts, Men and Gods] Reference

The yamen of the Taotai is a humble residence for so important an official; but the yamen of the Titai, between the South Gate and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

There is only one yamen in Tengyueh of any pretension, and it is the official residence of a red-button warrior, the Brigadier-General.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

I sidled off; but it was anything but comfortable, and I should not have been surprised had I found myself being led off to the yamen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across China on Foot] Reference

This is evidently the yamen or mandarin's quarter, and here we halt before a door, while our guide enters another one, and disappears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

In offices at the back of the Titai's yamen and within its walls, is the local branch of the Imperial Chinese telegraphs, conducted by two.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference