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Example sentences for "kien"

Lexicographically close words:
kidnaps; kidney; kidneys; kids; kie; kier; kies; kieselguhr; kik; kild
  1. Oni lin estimus, kien ajn li irus = He would be esteemed whithersoever he went (should go).

  2. Say that they sailed from Fo-kien in January 1292.

  3. According to the Chinese Annals (T'ung kien kang mu), quoted by Dr.

  4. Sikintinju is Kien chau "belonging to a town which was in Nayan's appanage, and is mentioned in the history of his rebellion.

  5. The Chinese mention a range of mountains from which the Orkhon flows, called Wu-tê kien shan.

  6. Then Kien arose, and motioning to his nephew to follow, led the way to an inner room where a sick girl was lying.

  7. In the province of Fu-kien a distinct kind of porcelain manufacture has also continued.

  8. On a fine morning in early autumn of the year 1771, Kien Long, the Emperor of China, was pursuing his amusements in a wild frontier district lying on the outside of the Great Wall.

  9. Both conditions were united obviously in the person of Kien Long, the reigning Emperor of China, who was farther recommended to them by his respect for the head of their religion.

  10. Where is this boat | Kien iras ĉi tiu | kee'ehn eer'ahss chee going?

  11. A great armament was equipped in the ports of Fu-kien to avenge this insult; but after some temporary success the force was compelled to re-embark with a loss of 3000 men.

  12. Chinchew, a famous seaport of Fo-kien about 100 miles in a straight line S.

  13. These particulars as to a race of painted or tattooed caterans accused of cannibalism apparently apply to some aboriginal tribe which still maintained its ground in the mountains between Fo-kien and Che-kiang or Kiang-si.

  14. Klaproth and Neumann refer it to Kiang-Ché, of which Fo-kien at one time of the Mongol rule formed a part.

  15. The meagre statement in the French texts shows merely that Polo had heard of the Fo-kien dialect.

  16. From the head of the great Che-kiang valley I find two roads across the mountains into Fo-kien described.

  17. Again Martini, speaking of the skill with which the Fo-kien boatmen navigate the rocky rapids of the upper waters, says that even from Pu-ch'eng the descent to the capital could be made in three days.

  18. Local Chinese histories acknowledge that the people of Fo-kien did not know how to make fine sugar, till, in the time of the Mongols, certain men from the West taught the art.

  19. Fu-kien has three open ports, Fuchow Fu opened in 1842, Amoy opened to trade in the same year and Funing.

  20. Fu-kien is generally mountainous, being overspread by the Nan-shan ranges, which run a general course of N.

  21. The province of Fuh-kien is claimed by the Japanese as their particular sphere of influence.

  22. About 40 species of bamboos have been distinguished; the one with a square stem from Fu-kien is the most curious.

  23. Fu-kien and Kwang-tung, are also densely peopled, Ho-nan being credited with 520 persons per sq.

  24. Chief among these is one mentioned in a publication by the Church Missionary Society itself, called the Story of the Fuh-kien Mission.

  25. Mighty columns of granite and brass erected by the Emperor Kien Long near the banks of the Ily' is De Quincey's description of the monument.

  26. This is a note of Kien Long subjoined to his main narrative; and De Quincey, I find, took the above transcript of it from the French translation of Bergmann's book.

  27. This is from a eulogistic abstract of Kien Long's own narrative by one of his Chinese ministers, named Yu Min Tchoung, a translation of which was sent to Paris by the Jesuit missionary, P.

  28. Both conditions were united obviously in the person of Kien 25 Long, the reigning Emperor of China, who was further recommended to them by his respect for the head of their religion.

  29. Moreover the words of the monumental inscription in De Quincey's copy of it are hardly what Kien Long would have written or could have authorized.

  30. Ballar's nearest neighbours on the main were called Gabshegonal, and Kien Mac Caunthca.

  31. Ballar's intentions having transpired, Gabshegonal assumed the defensive, and called to his assistance the sons of Kien Mac Caunthca.

  32. Kien Lung, Emperor of China, visited by third Tashi Lama, i.

  33. Happy Establishment" So called after two ranges of hills, Fu-Kien or Fo-Kien Congou .

  34. It is in Fo-Kien that the cultivation of this precious shrub is held in the highest estimation.

  35. The mausoleums are built after the pattern of the one already described, but between the entrance pillars of the third hangs a shield bearing the name of the Emperor Kien Lung in raised characters.

  36. Next day Kien Lung appointed a commission to go the round of the Peking temples in order to discover in which of them there was a Fire-god with a white beard, that he might worship him, and appease the offended deity.

  37. For on one of the burning rafters Kien Lung saw the figure of a little old man, with a long white beard, standing in a triumphant attitude.

  38. Next day there was a state visit to the dilapidated temple, and Kien Lung made obeisance and vowed a vow.

  39. It was, in short, the finest palace in the imperial city, and it was the pride of Kien Lung.


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