 | Laurence Oliphant - China - 1859 - 554 pages
...security against heel-taps. Chaou's yamun was a far handsomer residence than any similar official abode at Canton. The interior was invested with an air of comfort...breast, and making a crouching baboon-like gesture. It is the equivalent of shaking hands, only one shakes one's own hands instead of another person's, which... | |
 | Laurence Oliphant - China - 1859 - 560 pages
...security against heel-taps. Chaou's yamun was a far handsomer residence than any similar official abode at Canton. The interior was invested with an air of comfort...begged to take our leave," and began violently to " tsing-tsiug," a ceremony which consists in clasping your hands before your breast, and making a crouching... | |
 | Laurence Oliphant - China - 1860 - 670 pages
...quiet irony at the expense of us all, though ostensibly directed at our worthy consul, Mr. Eobertson, who, he says, must be glad of having such a good opportunity...breast, and making a crouching baboon-like gesture. It is the equivalent of shaking hands, only one shakes one's own hands instead of another person's, which... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1860 - 576 pages
...security against heeltaps. 'Chaou's yamun was a far handsomer residence than any similar official abode at Canton. The interior was invested with an air of comfort...breast, and making a crouching baboon-like gesture. It is the equivalent of shaking hands, only one shakes one's own hands instead of another person's, which... | |
 | Laurence Oliphant - History - 1860 - 542 pages
...security against heel-taps. Chaou's yamun was a far handsomer residence than any similar official abode at Canton. The interior was invested with an air of comfort...breast, and making a crouching baboon-like gesture. It is the equivalent of shaking hands, only one shakes one's own hands instead of another person's, which... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1860 - 576 pages
...against heeltaps. ' Chaon's yamnn was a far handsomer residence than any similar official abode at Canton. The interior was invested with an air of comfort...begged to take our leave," and began violently to " tsingteingj" a ceremony which consists in clasping your hands before your breast, and making a crouching... | |
 | Louis Charles Elson - Folk music - 1880 - 380 pages
...deserved it, etc. A similar "call » is described In Ainsworth's "all around the world," p. 106. " At last we begged to take our leave, and began violently...breast, and making a crouching baboon-like gesture ; it Is the equivalent of shaking hands, only one shakes one's own hands . . . Our 'host, insists on following... | |
 | Louis Charles Elson - Folk music - 1880 - 382 pages
...We deserved it, etc. A similar "call" is described in Ainsworth'a "all around the world," p. 103. " At last we begged to take our leave, and began violently...consists in clasping your hands before your breast, ana making a crouching baboon-like gesture ; it is the equivalent of shaking hands, only one shakes... | |
 | Louis Charles Elson - Music - 1908 - 378 pages
...deserved it, etc. A similar ' ' call » is described in Ainsworth's "all around the world," p. 106. " At last we begged to take our leave, and began violently to " taingtsing," a ceremony which consists in clasping your hands before your breast, and making a crouching... | |
 | Harley Farnsworth MacNair - China - 1927 - 976 pages
...Canton, wishes to know whether we are going to kill Yeh, and when the Ambassadors are coming north. . . . At last we "begged to take our leave," and began violently to "tsing-tsin," a ceremony which consists in clasping your hands before your breast, and making a crouching... | |
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Canton. The interior was invested with an air of comfort unusual in China, the walls nicely papered, and the floor carpeted. The whole establishment had been recently put into good order, and was altogether a fit residence for so elevated a functionary.... 
