Exactly similar to this medieval legend in spirit, although differing widely in detail, is the modern story of Shui Rhys, told to me by a peasant in Cardiganshire.
But when one night Shui never came home till bed-time, leaving the cows to care for themselves, dame Rhys took the girl to task as she never had done before.
Once indeed there came back to the neighbourhood a wild rumour that Shui Rhys had been seen in a great city in a foreign land--Paris, perhaps, or London, who knows?
Shui was a beautiful girl of seventeen, tall and fair, with a skin like ivory, hair black and curling, and eyes of dark velvet.
Many a time after that Shui was late; but now nobody chided her, for fear of offending the fairies.
Her mother watched in the fields on the Teir-nos Ysprydion, or three nights of the year when goblins are sure to be abroad; but Shui never returned.
As in the first phase, the T'ien Kuan confers happiness, the Ti Kuan grants remission of sins, and the Shui Kuan delivers from evil or misfortune.
His protector carried him to the cave Shui Lien, where he led the life of a hermit, and entrusted the infant to Ho Hsien-ku, who acted as his nurse and brought him up.
The Kogo-shui states that a certain mikoto inaugurated the fashioning of gems in Izumo, and that his descendants continued the work from generation to generation, sending annual tribute of articles to the Court every year.
It is recorded in the Kogo-shui that the butchering of oxen to furnish meat for workers in a rice-field roused the resentment of a Kami called Mitoshi.
They will further express their conviction of its infallibility, with certain limitations; and assert that there are occasions in life, when to call in the assistance of Feng-shui is not only advisable but indispensable to human happiness.
The Feng-shui of a house influences not only the pecuniary fortunes of its inmates, but determines their general happiness and longevity.
Any one of these causes may be sufficient in the eyes of a disciple of Feng-shui to account for the sudden outbreak of a plague, the gradual or rapid decay of a once flourishing town.
Conspicuous among these superstitions is Fêng Shui or Geomancy[570], a pseudo-science which is treated as seriously as law or surveying.
This Bread Convent had at one time been styled the Shui Yueh nunnery (water moon); but as good bread was made in that temple, it gave rise to this nickname.
Feng shui in disa place, no likee we," announced Charlie.
When Feng-shui no likee, we then must go chop-chop.
Charlie promptly became incoherent on this subject, and Moran and Wilbur could only guess that the Feng shui were the tutelary deities that presided over that portion of Magdalena Bay.
The principal article of export is silk, which is produced in the district forming the river delta, extending from Canton to Macao and having its apex at San-shui Hien.
Shui Hu, the Hsi Yu Chi, and others, are pure fabrications.
And as certain localities, as previously observed, are great favourites with them and others are deserted, possibly Feng-shui may have something to do with that also.
Birds have a Feng-shui of their own--an unwritten and occult science of the healthy and unhealthy places of residence--and seem to select localities in accordance with the laws of this magical interpretation of nature.
Such a fung-shui is supposed to exist under the surface of the earth about the Mukden royal tombs, and, accordingly, the railroad between Mukden and Peking had to run twenty-five miles out of its proper course in order not to disturb it.
The people in the neighbourhood of Pai-shui are very much afflicted with goître, especially the women, and the idea is prevalent among them that the impurities contained in the salt which they consume is the cause of the malady.
If Feng Shui should order a burial place in a dooryard it would have to be there.
We assert that plaintiffs have no right to interfere with our quarry, and we do not see how the fêng-shui of their graves can be affected.
In that case your fêng-shui would be immensely improved by the opening of the quarry.
Their functions are much the same as those of the fêng-shui hsien-shêng or Masters in Geomancy.
I lunched at the small village of Jê Shui T'ang, which, as its name implies, possesses a natural hot spring.
The road then led rapidly downhill for about 3 miles and brought us to a narrow valley through which flows a stream called the Hei Shui ("Black Water").
Following him more leisurely, I left Shui Chai and rode along a winding road for about 6 miles to the summit of a pass from which we had a good view of a portion of the Yung-ch'ang plain.
THE LIU SHA RIVER The Liu Sha is also known as the Han Shuior Chinese water.
From the T'ang to the Sung dynasties the name of the monastery was Pai Shui P'u Hsien Ssŭ.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shui" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
