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Example sentences for "jong"

Lexicographically close words:
jolt; jolted; jolting; jolts; jomp; jongleur; jongleurs; jonquil; jonquils; jools
  1. In June 2000, a historic first North-South summit took place between the South's President KIM Tae-chung and the North's leader KIM Jong Il.

  2. In June 2000, a historic first North-South summit took place between the South's President KIM Dae-jung and the North's leader KIM Jong Il.

  3. Jahweder jong kerdel ach en brud to seka and is er fif and twintich sa acht-er en wif to hava.

  4. In-t erost hede-r ther spul mith, men to tha lersta warth-et sa menerlik, that ald and jong ut alle wrdum wei kemon to frejande jef hja machte mith dva.

  5. Men just ther thrvch nildon that jong folk nen ambacht lera, nach vppa tha fjeldum navt ne werka, sa that hi to tha lersta wel slavona nimma moste.

  6. Vpper mark mot-i anda pele bvnden wrde, sa that et jong folk im anspeja mei; after ladath man him overa marka, men navt nei tha tinlana, thrvch that en ererawer ak is to fresane.

  7. Tibetan spies travelled daily between Taklakot and Garbyang, in order to keep the Jong Pen informed of my movements.

  8. We spent the greater part of the night in arranging our plan of attack on the Jong Pen's troops.

  9. We had been informed that the Jong Pen was concentrating his men at a certain point on the road, where he intended to bar our way.

  10. Instead of proceeding by the Lippu Pass, where the Jong Pen was waiting for me with his men, I made forced marches from Kuti in a different direction altogether.

  11. Our guard and some of the Jong Pen's men who had remained behind, finding they were in the minority, thought it prudent to disappear.

  12. The Jong Pen of Taklakot was given ample opportunity to explain the affair, but he declined to do so.

  13. He was, however, frustrated in this, inasmuch as the Jong Pen of Taklakot came to know of Mr. Landor's intention and took steps to prevent it.

  14. I tried to see the Jong Pen, but he pleaded illness and the inutility of a meeting in which he had nothing new to disclose.

  15. I sent a messenger back to the Jong Pen to inform him that I was ready to start, and that I would meet him on the Lippu Pass; that he had better beware, and get out of my way.

  16. We had gone but a few miles when we met with a large force of soldiers and Lamas, dispatched by the Jong Pen to prepare for our death.

  17. Those were the Jong Pen's orders, and they, as well as I, must obey them.

  18. The Jong Pen sent an impudent messenger one day to say that he had plenty of soldiers guarding the Lippu Pass, and that he would kill us all if we came.

  19. The Jong Pen of Taklakot says he must have your head at any cost.

  20. Lapsang, the Jong Pen's private secretary, and the greater portion of the soldiers, having changed their ponies, went on to Taklakot.

  21. Anxious as I naturally was to get out of the country as quickly as possible, I approved of all the Gyanema men said, and urged them to fight in case the Jong Pen insisted on my going through the Tarjum's province.

  22. It had six pictures on it commemorating the six great events in the life of King Jong and beneath were written the verses that explained them.

  23. And here King Jong sat every morning from nine to eleven passing judgment on all cases that were brought before him.

  24. So you are now to be known as Jong Thinkalot.

  25. These by order of king T‘ă-jong were now restored to the people and they were ordered to cultivate them.

  26. The brunt of the whole business fell upon T‘ă-jong and he saw that if his father was to become king someone must push him on to the throne.

  27. King Se-jong replied that there were no such jewels in the peninsula.

  28. It was in 1544 that King Chung-jong closed his long and eventful career.

  29. So the young king Tan-jong stepped down from the throne.

  30. T‘ă-jong urged that something must be done immediately to save the family name, but the father did not wish to proceed to extremities.

  31. Nothing could show more plainly the relation between King Sŭng-jong and the people than the custom he inaugurated of helping those to marry who were too poor to do so.

  32. Cho Wi-jong was a P‘yŭng-yang man with a towering ambition, and he now deemed the time ripe to put the wheels in motion.

  33. King Se-jong was the first man to dare to face the difficulty and overcome it by the use not of modifications of the Chinese characters but by an entirely new and different system, a phonetic alphabet.

  34. King Sŭn-jong could not do enough for Buddhism.

  35. Archbishop de Jong declared at a Conference of Bishops that he would never again form a united front with the Calvinists and other Protestants.

  36. Since my last report the Catholics among the Christian Jews have been deported because the five Bishops, with Archbishop de Jong of Utrecht at their head, did not abide by our original agreements.

  37. Anna de Jong instantly agreed, and began to go into the villagers' hostility to both mother and son; both of them were now taking the telepathy hypothesis for granted.

  38. They have to have a language," Anna de Jong declared.

  39. Anna de Jong said something about hot showers, and not having to take any more sponge-baths.

  40. Karl Dorver was even more convinced than ever of his telepathic hypothesis, and he had completely converted Anna de Jong to it.

  41. Anna de Jong had started to veer a little away from the Dorver Hypothesis.

  42. I was glad when one day I got orders to go on a ten days' trip down the line as far as Pete-jong and back.

  43. As a matter of fact, after a little parleying, they decided to evacuate, and we were to be free of the jong and all it contained, while of course we respected all property of theirs that pertained to religion.

  44. The lower part of the jong was occupied by byres and barns and dark chambers, all of them empty of all but filth.

  45. After halting one night at Pete-jong the column marched on in soaking rain to the foot of the Kamba-La.

  46. And as the jong became ours, the cheer that went up from every point where troops and followers stood in knots, watching the outcome, was a glorious climax to that long day.

  47. There is one monastery inside the jong itself, and another on the hillside close by.

  48. This is a village surmounted by a jong which is perched at the end of a rocky ridge which runs from higher hills close down to a corner of the Lake Palti.

  49. But every time any one went outside the jong from his quarters, he had to go down this slimy black artery and return the same way.

  50. It was only the jingals in the Gyantse-jong firing away at us patiently and solemnly, in the pious hope that they one day might hit something.

  51. The final assault on the jong was a sight well worth remembering, coming as it did at the close of so tedious an action.

  52. There was fortunately some grazing at Pete-jong for the animals, but both grain and tsampa were growing short.

  53. During that long day, at the end of which Gyantse-jong was taken, I saw very little of the fighting till just the very climax, when certain duties took me to the village Pala, where the Staff were watching the final phase.

  54. Jong pointed to the one he had in his own belt, while Lo Fing and Hu Ty held theirs forward, smiling grimly.

  55. Jong and his friends too, made the most of the time at their disposal.

  56. A dexterous heave sent it through the window, and if only he had known it, caused the faithful Jong the greatest consternation.

  57. Beware at whom you look,' cried Jong suddenly.

  58. Jong gripped the weapon and drew it, his eyes fixed all the while on the figure of Tsu-Hi.

  59. It was a fortunate thing for the party that the Chinese soldiers were armed with modern weapons, and trained to use them, and also that Jong had been provided with a magazine pistol.

  60. But I am thinking Ho-Hung can wield a stake, and Jong also.

  61. You had best be up early so that Jong can complete your toilets.

  62. Jong and his friend will take the left and right of the centre of the circles.

  63. But Jong is cunning, while the others will have obeyed his Excellency's orders.

  64. But Jong had his pot of water boiling now, and had put a fine edge on to the wedge-shaped native razor which he intended to use.

  65. Jong lay flat in the shadow, hugging the wall, and stared out into the open.

  66. Now,' he said, when at last Jong was before him, just within the passage.

  67. Jong will be too big after such a journey to speak to his countrymen.

  68. Then they halted for a spell, Jong quickly getting a kettle over a fire and the water boiling.

  69. That jong lady's horse maybe smells these horse and makes a noise, and crazy folks run from noise.

  70. If you like to find that jong lady, I put Yack on the trail quick," he offered placatingly.

  71. Then about mid-day the jong Commandant conceived the idea of reinforcing Palla.

  72. During the course of the day Major Murray sent a flag of truce to the jong with an intimation to the effect that the Tibetans could come out and bury their dead without fear of molestation.

  73. A retrograde movement from Khamba Jong to Chumbi would be interpreted by the Tibetans as a sign of yielding, and strengthen them in their opinion that we had no serious intention of penetrating to Gyantse.

  74. After shouting and firing for about an hour, the Tibetans would retire to the jong and our troops creep back to their beds.

  75. The storm of fire which then burst from the jong was an alarming indication of the strength in which it was held.

  76. Gyantse Jong was evacuated, and we occupied a position in a group of houses, as we thought, well out of range of fire from the fort.

  77. During the night the Tibetans in the jong built a covered way extending about half the distance between the jong and Palla.

  78. The only other reference he makes to the Jong shows us that the fortress was in bad repair so long ago as 1774.

  79. On July 1 the General intended assaulting the jong, but in the interval the jong Commandant sent in a flag of truce.

  80. More disappointing was the fact that an examination through telescopes of the rear of the jong showed that the Tibetans had been also building indefatigably there.

  81. But we all knew that the jong had to be taken, whatever the cost.

  82. No one could look at the bristling jong without realizing how difficult was the task before our troops, and without anxiety as to the outcome of the assault in killed and wounded.

  83. The Pioneers had just extended, and were advancing, when someone who happened to be looking at the jong through his glasses suddenly uttered a loud exclamation.

  84. He is informed jong must be evacuated, p.

  85. The capture of this position much disheartened the Tibetans: communications between Gyantse Jong and Shigatse were cut off, and the jong was now surrounded on three sides.

  86. And after that came the full blaze of the fight, the whole jong lighting up with the flashes of rifle and jingal fire, and down below our own fire getting hotter and hotter.

  87. They were afraid that if they gave us an inch we would take an ell, and if they allowed us at Khamba Jong one year we should go to Shigatse the next, and Lhasa the year after.

  88. But the Resident understood, he said, that Khamba Jong was in Tibetan territory, and therefore the meeting could only be at the boundary near the grazing-grounds fixed by the Convention of 1890.

  89. My impression is that neither the Chinese Government, the Resident, nor the Dalai Lama knew that Khamba Jong was on the Tibetan side of the frontier.

  90. His description of the Jong then precisely corresponds with our own experiences in Tibet on many an occasion since: “Dirt, dirt, grease, smoke.

  91. The delegates and the commanders in the jong were still undecided.

  92. I informed them that they had at Khamba Jong and Gyantse grossly insulted the British representative, and I now insisted that I should be shown the fullest respect.

  93. I have given all the reasons for thinking that the despatch of the Mission to Khamba Jong was justified.

  94. They also questioned me as to whether I had heard that a young sahib had crossed over the frontier with a large army, which the Jong Pen of Taklakot had defeated, beheading the sahib and the principal members of the expedition.

  95. I heard that Mr. Landor had been arrested and brought down as far as Rungu, and saw that the Jong Pen of Taklakot was sending men to divert Mr. Landor by the long roundabout route viâ the Lumpia Pass.

  96. I have collected the dues and paid them to the agents of the Jong Pen.

  97. This list (a copy) was handed to the Jong Pen of Taklakot.

  98. However, the woman was shrewd enough to deceive the Jong Pen's officers, for one night, having bundled up her tent and her goods and chattels, she quietly stepped over the boundary and placed herself under British protection.

  99. I have not yet got back your things from the Jong Pen, but I hear it is quite true that all your property reached Tokchim a long time ago.

  100. The correcter custom would require an expensive cloth of the kind called jong sarat, or the "Loaded Junk," according to my informant the Pawang.

  101. King Tai-jong made inquiry, and when he knew the circumstances he gave a sudden start of wonder and remained long in deep thought.

  102. To-jong asked for his place of residence, which he indicated as near by, and then left.

  103. To-jong heard this, and replied, "Though I am not of a kind equal to beans and corn, still I will rank with acorns and chestnuts.

  104. To-jong was greatly interested, though he could not understand it.

  105. For that reason all hearts forsook him, and because of this he was dethroned, and King Choong-jong reigned in his stead.

  106. To-jong did not go to the top, but seated himself about half-way up.

  107. King Se-jong said of him, "Im's harp knows but one master, and follows no other man.

  108. The year following was 1469 when Ye-jong came to the throne.

  109. If Se-jong had not been a great and enlightened king, how could it have happened?

  110. There he met a prophet who taught him the Whang-jong Kyong, or Sacred Book of the Taoists, and thus he learned their laws and practised their teachings.

  111. King T'ai-jong had a friend once who was very poor and had failed in all his projects.

  112. The Story Teacher To-jong was once upon a time a merchant, and in his merchandising went as far as the East Sea.

  113. To-jong was not only a prophet, but also a magician, as was shown by his handling of a boat.

  114. King Tai-jong was having a rest in Heung-yang Palace, while outside two eunuchs were talking together over the law that governs the affairs of men, as to whether it is man or God.


  115. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jong" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.