Crossword-Solution: CHINOIS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

His account of the wall is chiefly borrowed (as he says himself) from the Alsatia Illustrata of Schoepflin.] 44 (return) [ See Recherches sur les Chinois et les Egyptiens, tom.

For I have lived long enough to learn that the monstrous and outlandish figure, the _magot chinois_ whom I believed to be but a memorial of our forefathers' mental aberration, that grotesque _potiche_, works! The absurd and hollow creature of clay seems to be alive with a sort of (surely) unconscious life worthy of its traditions.

Dans l’un, où le sentier se rétrécissait tout à coup entre des murs sombres, entre de hauts toits en chaume pointus comme des huttes celtiques, une enseigne de cabaret la fit sourire: “Au cidre chinois”, et on avait peint deux magots en robe verte et rose, avec des queues, buvant du cidre.

Eux se regardent, en souriant comme d’une farce drôlement jouée, et ils disent: — Les Chinois! (Annamites, Tonkinois, Pavillons-Noirs, pour les matelots, tout cela c’est de la même famille chinoise.) Deux ou trois balles sifflent encore, plus rasantes, celles-ci; on les voit ricocher, comme des sauterelles dans l’herbe.

Politics and literature, Mexican bonds and Noblet's legs, Pates de perdreaux and the quarantine laws, the extreme gauche and the "Bains Chinois," Victor Hugo and rouge et noir, had formed a species of grand ballet d'action in my fevered brain, and I was perfectly beside myself; occasionally, too, I would revert to my own concerns, although I was scarcely able to follow up any train of thought for more than a few seconds together, and totally inadequate to distinguish the false from the true.