The localmandarins protested to the settlement council.
The first is the patent fact that public opinion all over China, among rich and poor, mandarins and peasants, has turned strongly against the use of opium.
The men were evidently merely coolies, hurriedly impressed by the mandarins when called upon by the Viceroy of Canton to produce the troops for whom they regularly drew pay.
To any but the most enlightened—or the mandarins from more sordid motives—it is a matter of comparative indifference who rules the Empire.
Worshipped by millions of his subjects, yet despised by the least among the mandarins of his court.
The mandarins tremble at their interference with the widespread corruption and unjust taxation on which the officials now batten.
The price for it passes through the hands of the mandarins and officials, and so but little reaches him.
Occasionally some of these fiends were captured by the Allies; often only the instruments, but sometimes the instigators of the terrible outrages on Europeans, the mandarins who had spurred on the maddened Boxers to their worst excesses.
Thus, the first nearest the gate suffices for the reception of the smaller mandarins or envoys of petty States, the next for higher notabilities or ambassadors of greater nations, and so on.
Foreign soldiers jested carelessly in the sacred chamber where the proudest mandarins of China had prostrated themselves in awe before the Dragon Throne.
By the following morning Admiral Ho and his mandarins had evidently come to the conclusion that we were more dangerous neighbours than the rebels; so he proceeded to move off from our vicinity.
The Viceroy orders themandarins to collect it from their districts.
The ministers andmandarins knelt a few steps below his Majesty.
The longest street, or rather the only one, is a mile in length; and in the environs reside the agriculturists, as well as the mandarins and other Government officers.
One is astonished to find these fertile lands furnish so little for exportation; but the sovereigns and mandarins enrich themselves by spoliation and extortion, and every abuse which can ruin a country and retard its progress.
Orders were issued by the king to arrest their departure, but no one remained to execute them; for the whole Cambodian population, with the mandarins at their head, had fled into the forests at the first news of the rising.
Some tried to escape, and succeeded, but others were caught, and the stout mandarins either were or pretended to be very much astonished that their vessels were lawful prizes to the squadron of Her Britannic Majesty.
The mandarins of Canton had seized a small trading vessel, the Arrow, flying the British flag, and imprisoned the crew.
Am I not a representative of one of the greatest mandarins of the empire?
True, true; your Mandarins are much better off than we are.
The market-towns have also mandarins of lesser rank in charge, besides a host of revenue collectors, the bureau of government works and other departments, with several hundred thousand officials, who all rank as gods beyond the grave.
The correlative deities of the mandarins are only of equal rank, yet the fact that they have been apotheosized makes them their superiors and fit objects of worship.
Chinese mandarins rotate in office, generally every three years, and then there is a corresponding change in Hades.
Among the procession of mandarins with their brilliant entourage who assembled to meet Liu Kun Yi, the viceroy at Nanking, on his return from Peking, in 1900, was the mandarin head of the beggars.
All mandarins have two such poles erected in front of their yamens.
Some, intended principally for wealthy mandarins or the imperial court, had pile of silk attached to warp and weft of cotton; and others were made entirely of silk.
But it is more probable that they were woven in Eastern China, where other branches of art reached a remarkable development under the patronage of wealthy mandarins and the imperial court.
Would anybody darn my stockings, or save the peel of the mandarins to make cordial?
I certainly would not have the mandarins if she were gone--it is a luxury.
The king seemed pleased at this, and so did some of his mandarins who liked the Spaniards, and recognized what benefits they had derived from them hitherto.
He asked them to treat of their business, and then to return to China quickly, and he warned the Spaniards not to show that they understood or were suspicious of anything other than what the mandarins had said.
Mandarins especially suffer very much from the custom of being obliged to "take wine" with a large number of guests.
The mandarins walk slowly round the ox, beating it severely at each step with rods of various hues.
To prepare himself for the celebration of this solemn rite the emperor is expected to fast and remain continent for three days previously, and the princes and mandarins who accompany him to the field are bound to observe similar restrictions.
The Mandarins were, however, so strictly upon the watch for all travellers or suspected persons, that he found himself under the necessity of abandoning his attempt and returning home.
The Mandarins avowed, that after the government of Amoy was established, they meant to carry fire and sword through the surrounding districts, as the people were all tainted with revolutionary principles.
If any of the villagers or citizens dare to assist the marauding mandarins in their tyranny, and resist our troops and adherents, no matter whether they reside in great or small places, we will sweep them from the face of the earth.
In that case, the population of the town will be quite ready to acknowledge the new power, and the authority of the Mandarins will fall without a blow.
He even enjoined the violation of solemn compacts entered into between the Mandarins and heads of villages, before they would give up the leaders in the revolt.
The navels were large, and averaged 5 dozen per case, and the mandarins 10 dozen per case.
Beauty of Glen Retreat Mandarins from trees of the same age.
Chinese mandarins come to seek the "Mount of Gold" in Cavite.
The Mandarins shortly afterwards returned to their country.
History records that in the year 1603 two Chinese Mandarins came to Manila as Ambassadors from their Emperor to the Gov.
Chinese mandarins came to see the "Mount of Gold" in Cavite.
This is the aristocratic quarter where the mandarins and officials live.
How the young Emperor must yearn for some knowledge and experience of the outer world, something more than the views of the aged mandarins around him, to guide him in his decisions.
The governor of the city or of the provinces is responsible for the condition of the roads, but were His Majesty to elect to make frequent journeys, the "squeezes" of the mandarins would be ruinous.
Public Offices are filled by nominated Mandarins of various grades.
Great mandarinsand ministers-plenipotentiary go in chairs, but smaller fry are not allowed to use them, besides which they are prohibitorily expensive.
The mandarins therefore asked the Spaniards how they came to be overpowered by so inferior a force, and how it happened, since the two nations were at war, that they were not put to death when they came into the hands of the English.
The mandarins being thus cut short on the subject of the duty, they said they had another matter to mention, which was the only remaining one they had in charge.
This matter being adjusted, the mandarins departed; and on the 28th of July two Chinese junks were sent from Canton to take on board the prisoners, and to carry them to Macao.
However, his guests did not entirely fast, for the three mandarins completely finished the white part of four large fowls.
In Tonquin, a kingdom southwest of China, in which the king and mandarins follow the Chinese religion, though various sects of idolatry and superstition reign among the people, a persecution was raised against the Christians in 1713.
After his death the four regents pat to death five Christian mandarinsfor their faith, and condemned F.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mandarins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
