How To Use Kiang In A Sentence
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Minutes of the North Kiangsu Mission, 1903; OLW, 39.
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Immense herds of kiang (wild asses) and drong (wild yak) freely roamed the great plains.
The Natural World
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A man from Nyima County told us that the number of kiangs in the county reached 400,000-500,000.
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[omission: Chinese characters] (lit. "the bank where the alligator was shot"), located ten li southeast of the present Hu-k'ou [omission: Chinese characters], in the Ching dynasty's Chiu-chiang Fu, Kiangsi, which is said to have been the place where Emperor Wu shot his alligator.
The History of the Former Han Dynasty
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In summer 1971, Kiang gave me intensive tutorials in auditory neurophysiology and an interesting project analyzing spike trains from the cochlear nucleus.
Roger Y. Tsien - Autobiography
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For the retirement rule, see Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the North Kiangsu Mission, Shanghai, 1922, 13, PHS.
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The exodus started in Anhui and North Kiangsu, provinces already scoured and picked clean when icy winds from the Gobi Desert drove the inhabitants south.
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Six months later, Mao and his followers moved east to a much larger base on the border of the provinces of Kiangsi and Fukien.
The Last Empress
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Taoism, or Tao-kiao, was invented by the disciples of Lao-tze, but the lofty theories of this philosopher have denigrated to the grossest superstitions, alchemy, astrology, and a worship of a pantheon of idols, the highest of which is Yu-hwang Shang-ti; the chief of the Taoists resides at Lung-hu-shan (Kiang-si); most of the hierarchy are extremely ignorant.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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“The North Kiangsu Mission has no place for free lancers or free lance work,” declared an official report containing, as far back as 1915, an unmistakable warning to Sydenstricker that routine defiance of mission policy would not be tolerated forever.
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In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two young girls bump heads and become thick as thieves.
Pearl of China by Anchee Min: Book summary
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The Indian species of this genus are properly asses; there are two kinds, although it has been asserted by many -- and some of them good naturalists, such as Blyth -- that the _Kiang_ of Thibet and the
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Chinghai, and Sinkiang by the white, and Thibet by the black; the ideal of the Chinese republic, a united territory, being indicated.
The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow
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One of the high points of the hikoi will be a dawn service and ceremony featuring the waka fleet on February 11 at Okura, Rawene, commemorating the meeting place of all Rangatira of Hokianga prior to the signing of the Treaty at Mangungu Mission in Horeke.
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The boundary of Tibet in regard to China includes that portion of Sinkiang south of Kuenlun Range and Altyn Tagh, the whole territory of Chinghai, the western portion of Kansuh and Szechuan, including Tachienlu, and the northwestern portion of Yunnan, including Atuntzu.
The Fight for the Republic in China
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The following day, after finding an unmapped spring where we are able to water the camels, we cross a mountain pass into yet another seemingly endless plain, where we see more wild camels, wild sheep, and kiangs.
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A new rule requiring compulsory retirement at the age of seventy—specifically aimed at Sydenstricker, who was the only missionary in North Kiangsu anywhere near this age limit— became official policy at the annual meeting in Kuling in August 1922.
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At early morn we land and pursue our way for a few miles across country to Lin-kiang, which is situated on a big tributary stream a few miles above its junction with the Kan-kiang.
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The range of kiangs overlap with the pasture of some nomads at the southern part of the reserve.
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These areas, still run by warlords, were currently under attack by the Communists on their Long March from Kiangsi.
The Last Empress
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In early October of 1934, Mao, Chou En-lai, General Chu, and other CCP leaders decided that in order to save themselves and their cause, they had to abandon their stronghold in Kiangsi.
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The other day I stood on a mountain top in Kiangsi.
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The Ch'ien T'ang River in Chêkiang is famous for its bore, or tidal wave.
Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese
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Born in Kiangsu province and sent to school at Wuhu in Anhui, Shao had grown up on the same great northern plain as Nanxuzhou.
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For the first time the Northern Expedition ran into trouble—not only at Wuhan, where one general told of having to rein in his horse so as not to trample the dead soldiers littering the ground at the front, but at Nanchang, a one-industry enamelware town in the northern part of Kiangsi.
The Last Empress
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Again, there is the "kiang" (_Asinus kiang_) met with in Ladakh, and the "yo-totze" (_Asinus equulus_), an inhabitant of
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Again, there is the "kiang" met with in Ladakh, and the "yo-totze," an inhabitant of Chinese Tartary.
Popular Adventure Tales
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Simple mathematics starkly outlined the scale of the difficulty for the handful of Southern Presbyterian missionaries who had elected to hold themselves responsible for saving the souls of ten million people in North Kiangsu.
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Moreover, the biogeographic analysis implied a presumed center of recent differentiation in the region from upper to mid Changkiang River to Qin Mountain .
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We came into the Canton River, or the Chu-Kiang as it is called, by the
The Mutineers
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At Kiukiang, where the vessel stopped, the lowdah and his men went ashore after receiving the gold dust and sycee shoes as their share of the plunder, while Wang, taking the junk and cargo as his portion, shipped a fresh crew and sailed on to Hankow, where he set up in business with the proceeds of his ill-gotten gains.
Life and sport in China Second Edition
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We meet the Indian rhino, a fearsome ass called the kiang, a yak.
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The hikoi will be supported by a fleet of 12 waka - including the waka taua Ngatokimatawhaorua, which will make its much-anticipated return to the Hokianga.
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Meanwhile, he had marched his men to the Ridge of Wells, a mountain range between the provinces of Hunan and Kiangsi, where he was joined by the future commander of the Communist armies, Chu Teh, with several thousand soldiers.
The Last Empress
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In October Absalom convened the annual meeting of the newly formed North Kiangsu Presbyterian Mission, which assembled in Shanghai, and tabled a formal resolution urging him to go home at once on furlough to the United States.
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The Latin name for the wild ass, _Equus kiang_, indicates his close relationship to the horse, and "kiang" is what he is called by the people of Tibet.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
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In some villages of Nyalam County, bharals and kiangs ate 40 percent of highland barley each year.
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But what touched her was the serenity, even gaiety of his old age—“Being always perfectly happy, he had a charm about him”—and his fondness for disconcertingly simpleminded jokes, something he had always shared more readily with colleagues than he could with his own family “Kill Sydenstricker!” went a favorite one-liner passed round the missionaries of North Kiangsu.
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He then “abandoned himself” to dissipations readily available in Shanghai, disappearing from headquarters for months at a time into the brothels on the Kiangsi Road the red-light district, contracting venereal disease several times and apparently becoming sterile.
The Last Empress
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But the number of wild animal species began to drop from the early 1980s, with Tibetan antelopes and wild kiangs in danger of extinction.
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It pro - duces 11 -- 12 generations annually at Hangchow , Chekiang Province.
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Mazingira ama makambi ya jeshi ni mazuri sana, salama, kuna utaratibu safi na utunzaji wa mazingira ni namba moja! ndiyo sababu popote kambi ilipo, raia watasogea na watajenga tuu, ukiangalia maeneo yote hayo yalikuwa misitu minene wakati jeshi lilipo establish makambi lakini with time wananchi wamesogea na wengine wamevamia kabisa!
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It is predominant in eastern Kiangsi, which is not a coastal province, and in central Kwangtung, and it is found in isolated groups throughout all of southern China.
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Mazingira ama makambi ya jeshi ni mazuri sana, salama, kuna utaratibu safi na utunzaji wa mazingira ni namba moja! ndiyo sababu popote kambi ilipo, raia watasogea na watajenga tuu, ukiangalia maeneo yote hayo yalikuwa misitu minene wakati jeshi lilipo establish makambi lakini with time wananchi wamesogea na wengine wamevamia kabisa!
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The following day, after finding an unmapped spring where we are able to water the camels, we cross a mountain pass into yet another seemingly endless plain, where we see more wild camels, wild sheep, and kiangs.
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The stilt-legged horses, species that resemble the true horses but were more slender limbed, and resemble Asian asses, such as the onager and kiang.
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Reporter: Ms. Kiang, do you have something to say to encourage our young people?
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That same autumn Absalom left for the annual general meeting of the North Kiangsu Mission in Hsuchowfu, accompanied by their next-door neighbor, an energetic younger man named James Bear, father of the red-headed boy who played with Pearl under the veranda.
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