Chine in A Sentence

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    Bullock, " Competitive Examinations in China " (Nineteenth Century, July 1894); and Etienne Zi, Pratique des examens litteraires en Chine (Shanghai, 1894).

    2

    Crepe de Chine is a silk fabric made from twisting the silk fibers in opposite directions.

    3

    His Orphelin de la Chine, performed at Paris in 1755, was very well received; the notorious La Pucelle appeared in the same year.

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    It has a hard chine hull powered with a conventional bermudan sloop rig.

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    On the left the port bow showing the single chine.

    6

    Possibly the reason there are so few is that it is round chine and so more difficult to build - who knows!

    7

    Silk crepe, or crepe de chine, is a heavier weight, comprised of tightly twisted silk yarns.

    8

    Sugar Weighing M the frame of the ma chine, and transmit the weight of the hopper by means of an intermediate lever and a vertical rod to the indicator lever.

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    Todhunter, Conflict of Studies (1873) William Whewell, Of a Liberal Education (London, 1845); Christopher Wordsworth, Scholae academicae (Cambridge, 1877); Etienne Zi (or Siu or Seu), Pratique des examens litteraires en Chine (Shanghai, 1894).