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Example sentences for "foreign devils"

  • If a Chinese Boxer is injured by a Frenchman, he kills a German, and feels himself avenged--they are all "foreign devils.

  • The Chinese city of Shanghai is walled and separated from the "foreign devils'" location, it is most truly Chinese, which means a great deal.

  • The great gate was then opened after a violent effort, with a loud grating of its enormous hinges, and the 'foreign devils' returned to the Factories, after an hour or two agreeably passed.

  • There were without doubt eight or ten thousand of the vilest of the population seemingly bent on the destruction of the 'foreign devils.

  • On the corner of Old China Street and the American Hong stood a guard-house with ten or a dozen Chinese soldiers, acting as police to prevent disturbance or annoyance to the 'foreign devils.

  • To the average Chinaman all "foreign devils" are alike; only those whose business brings them into relations with Europeans recognize degrees.

  • In the towns the English and the French are respected when other Europeans are not, but in the country parts all alike are foreign devils, of less account than pigs.

  • The Chinese dislike to foreigners is well known, so is the term "foreign devils," which is applied to them.

  • Then they have an ugly habit of speaking of us as barbarian or foreign devils.

  • As for you, Wing, your people say they hate us foreign devils, as they call us.

  • Why do foreign devils reach us when the evening has come, and attempt to pass us disguised as mandarins?

  • Foreign devils marched up country,' he was told, when he made cautious enquiries.

  • Why do foreign devils come to our city and demand entrance when the dusk has fallen?

  • When passing this singular place once afterwards, my Chinese crew informed me no European could ascend the rock and live, it being protected by some Chinese demon, or genii, peculiarly averse to "foreign devils.

  • The blow she feared had fallen, and her husband was a prey to the bewitching power of the "foreign devils.

  • Through occasional villages we rode, where the women called to each other to hurry and see the strange sight, and groups of naked and semi-naked children commented freely on the appearance of the "foreign devils.

  • One set of foreign devils by their magic had knocked his fortifications to pieces, mangled his body, and brought him to the verge of death.

  • We'll teach him to give the women of our country to foreign devils.

  • And now another set of foreign devils, by some other magic, were patching his broken body together again and bringing it back to life.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    escape from; foreign affairs; foreign assistance; foreign commerce; foreign debt; foreign devils; foreign governments; foreign influences; foreign intercourse; foreign intervention; foreign investment; foreign language; foreign ministers; foreign mission; foreign missionary; foreign nations; foreign ports; foreign stamps; foreign travel; foreign vessels; left foot; looking south; made from; motive force; other plants; stowed away