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  • Brian had taken such a powerful dislike to Ginger that I realized she must have done something more than shanghai his comic book.†   (source)
  • In the winter of 1922, Einstein visited Shanghai.†   (source)
  • I daresay, you could find similar examples in Shanghai and Rotterdam.†   (source)
  • You're going back to Shanghai tonight."†   (source)
  • My mother was from Wushi, near Shanghai.†   (source)
  • By the time of the Shanghai crash, the Korean president, Kim Dae-jung, felt compelled to speak up.†   (source)
  • Maya says the Moscovitzes went to Great Shanghai for dinner as a family, in order to grow to understand one another better as human beings.†   (source)
  • Around here, that's like moving to Shanghai, but Mom has always been a rather glamorous blonde and she wanted to make a career as an air stewardess.†   (source)
  • "Maybe they think it's Italian," said a Pizza Hut spokesman in Shanghai.†   (source)
  • They were achingly beautiful, these ghostly cities — New York, Rio, Shanghai, Paris—under their stains of stars, images as though from an epoch before electricity, but with the buildings of today.†   (source)
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  • "Why that's Shanghai Pierce's bunch," he said.†   (source)
  • Girls were rarely educated, often sold, and vast numbers ended up in the brothels of Shanghai.†   (source)
  • Did you like Shanghai?†   (source)
  • If my history serves me correctly, you weren't even allowed into the clubs in Shanghai before the Revolution.†   (source)
  • She happens to be from Shanghai.†   (source)
  • The whole population of Shanghai must have been there.†   (source)
  • Boarded a ship in Shanghai and crossed the Pacific wave by wave.†   (source)
  • I've seen him appear, just for a few seconds each time, in London, Rome, and Shanghai.†   (source)
  • To Shanghai, and Kyoto, and perhaps even Seoul.†   (source)
  • There were two others that we know of-a Russian commissar in Shanghai and more recently a banker in Madrid.†   (source)
  • What's Shanghai got to do with?†   (source)
  • The architect had just come from Shanghai, where he was building a new rower, taller than anything else he'd done.†   (source)
  • Shanghai and Mexico City because of you?†   (source)
  • Finally the news came that Theresa was engaged, to a Shanghai banker's son.†   (source)
  • It's only about half the distance to Shanghai.†   (source)
  • Next I lived with a Shanghai lady who had been very, very rich but was no longer.†   (source)
  • Another was a girl with very fine manners from a rich family in Shanghai.†   (source)
  • Teacher 'hang had to go back to a meeting in Shanghai, so I came here to take his place.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was your mother's dead spirit who guided her Shanghai schoolmate to find her daughters.†   (source)
  • Grandpa lived in Shanghai all his life and was never in charge of finances.†   (source)
  • Most of the students had never been out of Shanghai, so this was terribly exciting news.†   (source)
  • A letter came from Shanghai, addressed to my mother.†   (source)
  • In my hand I'm clutching a pair of tickets to Shanghai.†   (source)
  • Eventually they returned to Shanghai, where Chang Hong was able to move into a factory job.†   (source)
  • How did she know her daughters were in Shanghai and not somewhere else in China?†   (source)
  • You-mei's husband had a job in another city and was allowed to visit Shanghai only twice a year.†   (source)
  • I wonder if Auntie Lindo told my sisters we would call from the hotel in Shanghai?†   (source)
  • We lived in a big building in one of Shanghai's nicer neighborhoods.†   (source)
  • I went to the country outside of Shanghai to live with a second cousin's family.†   (source)
  • We add just a little, so you can go Hong Kong, take a train to Shanghai, see your sisters.†   (source)
  • The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum.†   (source)
  • What were the names of the uncles who died in Shanghai?†   (source)
  • It seems all the cities I have heard of, except Shanghai, have changed their spellings.†   (source)
  • She spoke Mandarin slightly blurred with a Shanghai dialect.†   (source)
  • YINONG YOUNG-XU emigrated from Shanghai to the United States when he was sixteen.†   (source)
  • Once the wild men of Shanghai Pierce had come through, nearly destroying two saloons.†   (source)
  • The initial charge was trafficking in drugs, their network the Shanghai-Beijing axis.†   (source)
  • This looks like the last train from Shanghai.†   (source)
  • And, secretly, I was pleased that this star from the Shanghai Ballet had followed in my footsteps.†   (source)
  • Now they beheld more than they experienced, observing how it was a lot like Shanghai, only newer.†   (source)
  • Or our cities get what Mexico City, Shanghai and Cairo got.†   (source)
  • Fudan University, second in my class —1 owned my own hotel in Shanghai.†   (source)
  • "In Shanghai you ate foreign food," Theresa said (da cai, she called it — big vegetables).†   (source)
  • "Specially not one who's going off with Shanghai Pierce.†   (source)
  • I was besotted with a girl from Shanghai called Her Junfang as well.†   (source)
  • Bourne stopped the black Shanghai sedan on the dark, treelined, deserted stretch of road.†   (source)
  • I was so happy and relieved when Zhu Yaopingrushed up and said something to me in Shanghai dialect.†   (source)
  • It's going to Shanghai and the people in Beijing said I was to be on it!†   (source)
  • Almost all of the kids who couldn't swim came from Shanghai or Beijing.†   (source)
  • The commando began throwing the branches aside, in moments revealing the black Shanghai sedan.†   (source)
  • How long would it be before people could work in Shanghai?†   (source)
  • This guy from Intelligence said that what Russia really wanted was Shanghai.†   (source)
  • Others who went on the walk included Yu Youren, president of Shanghai University, and Cao Gubing, general manager of the newspaper Ta Kung Pao.†   (source)
  • …listing all the new Korean Air accidents that had happened just since its investigation began: the Korean Air 747 that crash-landed at Kimpo in Seoul, almost a year to the day after Guam; the jetliner that overran a runway at Korea's Ulsan Airport eight weeks after that; the Korean Air McDonnell Douglas 83 that rammed into an embankment at Pohang Airport the following March; and then, a month after that, the Korean Air passenger jet that crashed in a residential area of Shanghai.†   (source)
  • Wang performed some computations in his head and realized that even if the entire population of Earth were arranged into such a phalanx, the whole formation would fit inside the Huangpu District of Shanghai.†   (source)
  • Ever since third grade I had been counting on getting into Shi-yi, one of the best junior high schools in Shanghai.†   (source)
  • I thought of Grandma getting married so long ago, bringing the four beautiful trunks full of gifts her mother had sent from Tianjin to Shanghai.†   (source)
  • The Great Prosperity Market was on Nanjing Road, Shanghai's busiest shopping street, only two blocks from our alley.†   (source)
  • An Yi had been sent away to spend the summer with her grandparents in Shandong, away from Shanghai's turbulence.†   (source)
  • Dad went to St. John's University in Shanghai on a scholarship, and he tutored some private students to make money, but even so Grandma had to sell some of her jewelry to pay for their daily expenses.†   (source)
  • Bai Shan spent years in the remote countryside near the Russian border, but now he is the business manager of the Shanghai branch of a foreign company.†   (source)
  • Before Mao's liberation, my father remembers as a boy in the city of Shanghai seeing corpses of beggars lying in the streets while the wealthy drove by in chauffeured limousines.†   (source)
  • My father said we had no choice but to move the family to Wushi, to the south near Shanghai, where my mother's brother owned a small flour mill.†   (source)
  • But then I started dreaming, too, of my mother and my sisters and how it would be if I arrived in Shanghai.†   (source)
  • Ming-ming's father had been the Party Secretary of the Shanghai Institute of Political Science and Law, and had been under arrest at the Institute for several weeks.†   (source)
  • Because I am thinking how different our arrival in Shanghai will be tomorrow, how awkward it will feel.†   (source)
  • But my mother had studied at a famous nursing school in Shanghai, and she said she knew all about genetics.†   (source)
  • But then I read that letter from her daughters in Shanghai now, and I talk to Auntie Lindo, all the others.†   (source)
  • When letters could be openly exchanged between China and the United States, she wrote immediately to old friends in Shanghai and Kweilin.†   (source)
  • When it is safe to come, if you bring them to Shanghai, 9 Weichang Lu, the Li family will be glad to give you a generous reward.†   (source)
  • So this is what they wrote to my sisters in Shanghai: "Dearest Daughters, I too have never forgotten you in my memory or in my heart.†   (source)
  • Shanghai people with north-water peasants, bankers with barbers, rickshaw pullers with Burma refugees.†   (source)
  • How they later fled together to Shanghai to try to find my mother's family house, but there was nothing there.†   (source)
  • I have looked these names up, because after we see my father's aunt in Guangzhou, we will catch a plane to Shanghai, where I will meet my two half-sisters for the first time.†   (source)
  • She had come here in 1949, at the end of a long journey that started in Kweilin in 1944; she had gone north to Chungking, where she met my father, and then they went southeast to Shanghai and fled farther south to Hong Kong, where the boat departed for San Francisco.†   (source)
  • Shanghai.†   (source)
  • During this conversation, my mother was talking about a political gangster in Shanghai who had the same last name as her family's, Du, and how the gangster in his early years wanted to be adopted by her family, which was rich by comparison.†   (source)
  • Most of them showed passages from Shadowhunter history: the Angel rising from the lake with the Mortal Instruments, the Angel passing the Gray Book to Jonathan Shadowhunter, the First Accords, the Battle of Shanghai, the Council of Buenos Aires.†   (source)
  • A murder in Tokyo; a car blown up in Hong Kong; a narcotics caravan ambushed in the Triangle; a banker shot in Calcutta; an ambassador assassinated in Moulmein; a Russian technician or an American businessman killed in the streets of Shanghai itself.†   (source)
  • So we told Great China that her major coastal cities would each receive a Lunar present offset ten kilometers into ocean—Pusan, Tsingtao, Taipei, Shanghai, Saigon, Bangkok, Singapore, Djakarta, Darwin, and so forth—except that Old Hong Kong would get one smack on top of F.N.'s Far East offices, so kindly have all human beings move far back.†   (source)
  • At best the orbital bombardment of Shanghai, Cairo and Mexico City had dropped global temperatures by .†   (source)
  • When I was six, in the streets of Shanghai, near the end of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, I watched a parade of trucks carrying political dissidents on their way to be publicly executed.†   (source)
  • His stories of trading for copra, fights with gangs in pre-Communist Shanghai and, as they both got older, beautiful island maidens, were some of the highlights of Tyler's childhood.†   (source)
  • Finally she was sent to Shanghai, to some close friends with an invalid daughter; Theresa was to keep that daughter company for a few months.†   (source)
  • Gus seemed unaware that one of the more persistent topics of dispute on the Texas range was whether his voice was louder than Shanghai Pierce's.†   (source)
  • It was the last thing he had expected, and his immediate impulse was to fire the boy on the spot and send him back to Shanghai Pierce, who was said to be tolerant of the bottle.†   (source)
  • And especially, strangely, this: he shouldn't have taken that watch from his mother when he boarded the boat in Shanghai.†   (source)
  • Twenty-five students from Shanghai, three students from Beijing and one student from Inner Mongolia were also selected.†   (source)
  • In the south it became mainly a matter of protecting the cattle herds of rich men like Captain King or Shanghai Pierce, both of whom had more cattle than any one man needed.†   (source)
  • Of course, he was more probably a Shanghai banker's son whose grand ambition was to become a Shanghai banker.†   (source)
  • Gao shouted at Zhu Yaoping, the small boy from Shanghai who'd spoken to me at dinner the night before.†   (source)
  • She went to Chinatown three times a week, thinking of it as one more foreign quarter of Shanghai, like the British concession, or the French.†   (source)
  • Artisans prospered; farmers butchered their animals and lived as well as the educated classes in Beijing and Shanghai — usually with better housing.†   (source)
  • But then, just before the third and final round, one of the Chinese competitors, Lin Jianwei from Shanghai, suddenly disappeared from the competition.†   (source)
  • He was spotted by scouts sent out from the Central Committee some years ago at the Fudan University in Shanghai.†   (source)
  • He had always known about bars Shanghai was full of them — but he had never actually been inside one before.†   (source)
  • This is in a small town in Jiangsu province, outside Shanghai, a place of dusty shops and rutted roads, of timber and clay a place where every noise has a known source.†   (source)
  • Sheng Chou Yang is the first son of a Shanghai industrialist who made his fortune in the corrupt world of the old China, Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang.†   (source)
  • The Shanghai kids coped well—they were generally fairer skinned too, but us country kids were darker.†   (source)
  • The others were all from Shanghai and although they talked a lot I didn't understand a thing they said because they only spoke Shanghai dialect.†   (source)
  • As his father stared off into the Shanghai harbor — at the true ships in the distance, the ragtag boats by the shore — she slid a wristwatch into Yifeng's hand.†   (source)
  • And even if they reached Shanghai, with its relatively lax airport, how many complications might arise?†   (source)
  • The students from Shanghai had arrived an hour before and are already impatiently waiting on the bus.†   (source)
  • The Shanghai sedan was far off the airport road, as far off as the assassin could drive it, again concealed by foliage.†   (source)
  • She was fond of the Chinese people and told me she had lived in Shanghai for quite a few years while she was a young girl.†   (source)
  • Without it they would be filled with innocuous anxieties too placid to contend with; these were the descendants of Guangzhou — the province of Canton — not world-weary Shanghai.†   (source)
  • It would take thirteen to fifteen hours to reach Shanghai — ||the car held up and if he held up, and if they could get by the provincial checkpoints where he knew there would be alarms out for a Westerner, or two Westerners, attempting to pass through.†   (source)
  • I brought you some Shanghai cakes.†   (source)
  • Before our midday sleep on that first day, as we were heading back to our room, Zhu Yaoping, the small boy from Shanghai, slid down the stair rail at our dormitory.†   (source)
  • I had learned about Australia in our geography classes back at the academy and was always puzzled that such a huge country like Australia only had a population the same size as Shanghai's.†   (source)
  • Certainly she couldn't follow up and take Shanghai for quite a number of years, but she'd get it in the end.†   (source)
  • And that adds up to radiological warfare…… " Peter said, "But using cobalt, she couldn't follow up and take Shanghai."†   (source)
  • What they wanted to do was to turn the Russians back into an agricultural people that wouldn't want Shanghai or any other port.†   (source)
  • She'd have been a great deal happier if there had been two hundred million fewer Chinese, and she wanted Shanghai.†   (source)
  • It flew from Perth due north and got as far as the China Sea, about latitude thirty north, somewhere south of Shanghai, before it had to turn back.†   (source)
  • We sailed down the Yangtze to Nanking, and then took a train for Shanghai.†   (source)
  • Her clothes she will have of nothing but the finest satins with special patterns woven in Soochow and Hangchow and she will have a tailor sent from Shanghai with his retinue of under tailors lest she find her clothes less fashionable than those of the women in foreign parts.†   (source)
  • You must have an agent in Pekin or Shanghai or somewhere, and I'll bet everything costs plenty by the time you handle it.†   (source)
  • "She is to marry the second son of a Shanghai magistrate," said the woman, and then after a long pause she added, "They must be getting poorer for the Old Mistress herself told me they wished to sell land—some of the land to the south of the house, just outside the city wall, where they have always planted rice each year because it is good land and easily flooded from the moat around the wall."†   (source)
  • It appeared that the doctor had gone to a bigger hospital in Shanghai, so I took the trouble to get his address and call on him there.†   (source)
  • First of all I tried to trace details of books, et cetera, sent in large consignments across the Tibetan frontier, but at all the likely places, such as Shanghai and Pekin, I drew complete blanks.†   (source)
  • Shanghai itself is situated at least twelve miles up the stream.†   (source)
  • It puts in at Yokohama and Nagasaki, but it starts from Shanghai.†   (source)
  • That very evening Mr. Fogg was due at Shanghai, if he did not wish to miss the steamer to Yokohama.†   (source)
  • What happened when the pilot-boat came in sight of Shanghai will be easily guessed.†   (source)
  • All sails were now hoisted, and at noon the Tankadere was within forty-five miles of Shanghai.†   (source)
  • At seven they were still three miles from Shanghai.†   (source)
  • And perhaps, from Tokyo or Shanghai it would be possible to tranship into some other line and drip down to the islands of the South Pacific.†   (source)
  • There were so many places where one might deteriorate pleasantly: Port Said, Shanghai, parts of Turkestan, Constantinople, the South Seas—all lands of sad, haunting music and many odors, where lust could be a mode and expression of life, where the shades of night skies and sunsets would seem to reflect only moods of passion: the colors of lips and poppies.†   (source)
  • For hours Sondelius talked, of Shanghai and epistemology and the painting of Nevinson; for hours he sang scurrilous lyrics of the Quarter, and boomed, "Yey, how I kill the rats at Kellett's wharf today!†   (source)
  • The captain of the Pelion was shifted into the Ossa—came aboard in Shanghai—a little popinjay, sir, in a grey check suit, with his hair parted in the middle.†   (source)
  • Smallpox in 'Onolulu, two broken legs in Shanghai, pnuemonia in Unalaska, three busted ribs an' my insides all twisted in 'Frisco.†   (source)
  • He had been stranded out East somewhere—in Canton, in Shanghai, or perhaps in Yokohama; he probably did not care to remember himself the exact locality, nor yet the cause of his shipwreck.†   (source)
  • He wanted to go to the East; and his fancy was rich with pictures of Bangkok and Shanghai, and the ports of Japan: he pictured to himself palm-trees and skies blue and hot, dark-skinned people, pagodas; the scents of the Orient intoxicated his nostrils.†   (source)
  • He gave me a lot of instructions as to the passage—I had been in the trade before he was out of his time—and no end of hints as to my conduct with our people in Shanghai, so that I should keep the command of the Ossa.†   (source)
  • And impatience grew until, on June 2, word came that the Tampico, a steamer on the San Francisco line sailing from California to Shanghai, had sighted the animal again, three weeks before in the northerly seas of the Pacific.†   (source)
  • He several times assured Mr. Fogg that they would reach Shanghai in time; to which that gentleman responded that he counted upon it.†   (source)
  • By going to Nagasaki, at the extreme south of Japan, or even to Shanghai, which is only eight hundred miles from here.†   (source)
  • And when does the boat leave Shanghai?†   (source)
  • The next morning at dawn they espied the coast, and John Bunsby was able to assert that they were not one hundred miles from Shanghai.†   (source)
  • "Pilot," said Mr. Fogg, "I must take the American steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki."†   (source)
  • All this Passepartout learned from Aouda, who recounted to him what had taken place on the voyage from Hong Kong to Shanghai on the Tankadere, in company with one Mr. Fix.†   (source)
  • In going to Shanghai we should not be forced to sail wide of the Chinese coast, which would be a great advantage, as the currents run northward, and would aid us.†   (source)
  • We have, therefore, four days before us, that is ninety-six hours; and in that time, if we had good luck and a south-west wind, and the sea was calm, we could make those eight hundred miles to Shanghai.†   (source)
  • It would clearly have been to the master's advantage to carry his passengers to Yokohama, since he was paid a certain sum per day; but he would have been rash to attempt such a voyage, and it was imprudent even to attempt to reach Shanghai.†   (source)
  • Still, the Tankadere was so light, and her fine sails caught the fickle zephyrs so well, that, with the aid of the currents John Bunsby found himself at six o'clock not more than ten miles from the mouth of Shanghai River.†   (source)
  • To Shanghai!†   (source)
  • Shanghai.†   (source)
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