After some one has so stirred the leaves that they have all become heated alike, they are ready to be sold to proprietors of tea-hongs in the towns, when the proprietor has the leaves again put over the fire and sifted.
The counters and shelves inside these hongswere very handsome.
The Chinese word 'Hong' was applied to any place of business, but was more particularly used to designate the Hongs of the 'Security Merchants' whence Hong Merchants or any foreign Factory in its entirety.
The orderly and intelligent despatch of business at the Hongs was characteristic of the Chinese, as were the neatness of all packages and the dexterity with which they were handled.
The residences or hongs of the merchants seemed planned by liberal minds, and executed by as liberal hands.
Generally these hongs stand in spacious enclosures, or compounds, filled with rare tropical trees and the bamboo so common in China.
Perhaps a notice of the great hongs will prove more interesting to you.
The hongs front upon the river, in order that cargo-boats may approach them; but they have also another entrance at the end which opens from the suburbs.
The teas are not generally brought to the hongs until sold.
On descending, we find that a servant has placed for us on a superb table in one of the pretty rooms cups of delicious tea,--it being the custom in all the hongs to offer the beverage to strangers at all times.
Doubtless it is only a scheme of the ah-hongs to put the people in fear.
The times of prayer are not observed save by the ah-hongs and mullahs and a few of the old men.
Their ah-hongs or pastors do not trouble to teach any save the students, for which they are paid.
The ah-hongs have warned their people that if any join the church they will be put to death when the foreign ambassador arrives from Turkey.
They have hongs at every open port on the China Coast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hongs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
