At the entrance there sometimes stood the village "joss," although many villages had destroyed their idols.    From Wordnik.com.  [Korea's Fight for Freedom] Reference

"joss" and will do nothing for their virility, health or business.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Analysis] Reference

Oh by the way, that was bad joss about Noble Star.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

Think have samee big joss some bit up here in canlon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave] Reference

The smell of peonies mingled with the burnt joss paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greenery of Spring Time] Reference

I think it was her joss — her fate or luck or unluck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

If it's the third or ninth or second it's joss never mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

Such bad joss, he was close to being a millionaire but now?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

His joss had changed ever since he had caught that old amah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

He passed a store selling statues and altars and joss sticks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stone Monkey]

The gods have their own rules and they decide a human's joss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

Senior lady is as good-natured as a joss; and she likewise is no good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

He carried a wicker basket full of spices and food; joss paper and wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greenery of Spring Time] Reference

America anyway, have talked in their tea rooms and joss houses about the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birdseye Views of Far Lands] Reference

But it's my money that'll make the fornicator rich if it's his joss to be rich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

If joss is against you and you fail, the offer to head the new syndicate stands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

Our joss-houses and our feasts are nothing to the splendors of American churches.    From Wordnik.com.  [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference

The smell of joss-sticks was heavy on the air, and the filigree cloak worn by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference

She felt as astonished as if some Confucian fanatic had set up his joss at auction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Chance] Reference

Perhaps our joss has changed and the boom will happen like Old Blind Tung forecast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

And, with joss, Bartlett's the noose that'll strangle Quillan Gornt once and for all time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

The street light revealed a window filled with a medley of china, teas, silks, and joss-sticks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Noon] Reference

He could not reconcile himself to wait; so stealthily he snatched a joss-stick and set fire to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

A kind of altar faces the worshippers, with a box of sand, in which are stuck the burning joss-sticks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

This is hung up at the entrance of the mourners 'houses, while they offer oblations and burn joss-sticks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs] Reference

The joss-house, where they held their religious services, was a chamber opening out upon an upper balcony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas] Reference

There was a vague suggestion of roses about the room, and a mingled fragrance of joss-sticks and cigarettes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference

I toss joss sticks, knee-socks, and condoms (ribbed especially for her pleasure) in my satchel, and drive over.    From Wordnik.com.  [ll Book That Therapy Appointment Soon] Reference

If, therefore, it were found that this gilt joss had a gold nose then the magistrate would know her tale was true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference

Of course, they could not imagine that Mr. Furniss would want to visit the joss house and opium joints of Chinatown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference

It has doors that open when the joss-sticks are to be burnt before the toy figure that presides on a miniature throne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

She Yüeh at once lowered the mosquito-curtain, removed the lamp, burnt the joss-sticks, and waited upon Pao-yü until he got into bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference