You, Cousin, you've put your own head into the cangue. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Smeared with blood the bamboo saw was placed on the cangue in inviting proximity to the head. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
The priests are threatened with the cangue, or heavy wooden collar, and to be chained at the entrance of their. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Young John Allen to an editor,January 28, 1868] Reference
Apart from the weight of their fetters, and of the cangue in which they are thus pilloried, these men suffer much from hunger and thirst. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference
A third attempt was punished with two months in the cangue, a wooden framework fastened about his neck and hands, used as a portable pillory. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Empress] Reference
But it is remarkably effective in a country with a long history of punishment by humiliation—think of the cangue, a rectangular slab around the neck, in pre-Communist times and dunce caps in the Cultural Revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Stop, Or I'll Criticize!] Reference
But it is remarkably effective in a country with a long history of punishment by humiliation — think of the cangue, a rectangular slab around the neck, in pre-Communist times and dunce caps in the Cultural Revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Ching-hsiu from the cangue, and allowed him to go free. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of China] Reference
A cangue, on the other hand, forces them to remain outdoors as they can't get it through doorways. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Two thieves were among the foremost, with huge iron crowbars chained to their necks and ankles, while a third prisoner, with his head pilloried in a cangue, obstructed the gaze of many. From Wordnik.com. [AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA]
If anyone wanders off, he'll walk to Jehol in a cangue! ". From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Dragon]
"That thing that looked like a tree box is what they call a cangue. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
Do you know what a cangue is?. From Wordnik.com. ["'Mongol' might as well be called 'Braveheart in a Yurt.'"] Reference
On signal the cangue was removed. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
You have come to be locked in a cangue. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
(3) Those who are to be exposed in the cangue. From Wordnik.com. [Historic China, and other sketches] Reference
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