The Correct Meaning,' or Paraphrase of Hsing Ping (see p.
Then the noise would pass away, to be replaced by the zip-zip of Mausers, and by the distant ping-ping of the reports.
On his right nothing but thick scrub was to be seen, from which, however, the continuous ping of musketry rang, proving that hidden foes lurked there.
At last I arrived at a kind of embankment, where I could see the great mud-colored stream slip- ping along in the soundless darkness.
Bishop Hans of Linköping is here, and so's the King.
The Bishop of Linköping cannot sit in judgment on a canonicus at Strängnäs.
A part of the Second Army Corps then joined Lieutenant General Katsura's division of the First Army Corps at Kai-ping, on December 10, and carried that town by charging it over the slippery ice of the Kai-ping River.
This mandarin was the great Li Hung Chang, who had been summoned by his emperor to save the country from the terrible Tai-ping rebellion.
As the Tai-ping rebellion broke out when Miss Chao was about fifteen or sixteen years of age, she would hear these stories for two or three years before she entered the palace.
When I entered the dimly lighted room she was sitting in the midst of a group of women and girls--patients in the hospital--who listened with bated breath as she told them of the horrors of the Tai-ping rebellion.
It began after a conquering army had made terms of peace in her capital, and with the Tai-ping rebellion in full swing of success.
Li Hung-chang had won his title to greatness during the Tai-ping rebellion, for his part in the final extinction of which he was ennobled as an Earl.
As we led the trembling Kum Ping out, a greatly excited crowd of chattering Chinese met us at the end of the passage at Spofford alley, and the news passed from lip to lip, "The Mission people have taken Woon Ha's new slave girl!
Long after the excitement of these days was over, Kum Ping returned to our Home; country air and a free life are working their spell.
To avoid these unpleasant experiences, Kum Ping had to change her place of residence several times, the last time being the night before the fatal eighteenth of April.
Her new husband had made a good impression on the old aunt who was her guardian, and for a small consideration in Mexican coin, Kum Ping became his property according to Chinese custom, as well as his legal wife by American law.
It needed not a second look to recognize in the frightened, anxious face before me Kum Ping of the steamer.
Some weeks passed by after our visit to Kum Pingon the steamer.
If repairs were going to consume too much time, then he could join Cameron, McGlory, and Ping and go to the Traquair homestead in the lieutenant's borrowed motor car.
Murgatroyd must have had an extra switch plug with him, for Brackett, proprietor of the hotel, was authority for the assertion that he left town shortly after Cameron, McGlory, and Ping had taken their departure.
While he was getting the machine ready, Ping mysteriously disappeared.
Much good it will do him now," chuckled Cameron, "since Ping has robbed the machine of the important plug.
At that moment Ping showed himself around the lower end of the tent and shouted, in his high cackle, "Suppa' leddy!
The amazing news she had given held McGlory, Cameron, and Ping spellbound.
Motor Matt and his friend Joe McGlory, together with the Chinese boy, Ping Pong, have been at Fort Totten ever since the aëroplane was sold to the government.
Ping had already thrown a bag of rations into the tonneau of the motor car, and Cameron sprang around in front and began cranking.
Somewhere, along the road to Sykestown, McGlory, Cameron, andPing were making their way in the borrowed motor car.
Ping tumbled out of the tonneau and fluttered around, dancing up and down in his excitement and anxiety.
Ping Pong=, a Chinese boy who insists on working for Motor Matt, and who contrives to make himself valuable, perhaps invaluable.
The aëroplane was guarded by Pinguntil Matt, Cameron, and McGlory reached Sykestown over the trail to Jessup's and sent a team and wagon back to bring the damaged machine into town.
There was something about the knife that reminded Matt of the rusty dagger Pinghad found in the woods, and recalling the dagger brought Cameron's story of Goff Fortescue abruptly to Matt's mind.
There was a silence for a while, Ping getting a crick in his neck holding his head back and watching the sky toward the north and east.
Mr Ping was mollified, and rubbed his hands softly.
The MC took snuff, and rested first on one leg and then on the other; lastly, he held his head on one side and admired two or three velvet waistcoat pieces, so as to give Mr Ping time to repent.
But Mr Ping did not want time to repent, and he would not have repented had the MC stayed an hour, and this the latter knew, but dared not resent, bowing himself out at last gracefully.
Doing beautifully,' the Nurse called back, and with a ping-ping-ping of the bell brushed round the corner.
The Ts'i-ti records say there is a well in the city of Ch'ang-ping at the brambles; when the water is disturbed a spiritual dragon comes and goes.
Ping I (Icy exterminator), and the Emperor K'i (B.
The Tai Ping Kwang Ki says that the lake of Wan Tun, at Fi Chi, contains a Shan which often fought with the Shan of Lake Su.
Ping I is supposed to dwell in Tsung Ki pool near the fairy region of Kwa-Sun, to have a human face, and to drive two dragons.
It states that, according to the Si Yang Y Shu, a one-horned spiritual lamb was born in the Ping Shen district, and in the twenty-first year of Kai Yuen.
At present there are Lin existing on the frontiers of Ping Cheu.
It will be convenient to introduce here the following note on the Tai-ping rebellion.
The new empire which they were trying to establish, they called Tai-ping Tien-kwoh, "The Kingdom of Heaven and the reign of peace.
Meadows, who accompanied the Hermes, made a report full of sympathy; but the failure of their expedition to the north deterred the nation from any formal recognition of the Tai-ping government.
We all pricked up our ears, and strained our eyes, while a bright, spitting sparkling fire of musketry opened at the gap, but there was no ping pinging of the shot overhead.
A flash--crack went the sentry's piece, and ping sung the ball over our heads.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
