His many tens of thousands of sycee are supposed to weigh more than youth and love.
The abbot has wailed and gone to the magistrate; but he will not interfere, as the men have many tens of thousands of sycee and quite likely will work their will.
But yesterday we saw the procession carrying the merchant Wong to his resting-place of sycee spent upon his funeral.
The sharp edges of a "shoe" of sycee are caused by the mould containing the molten silver being gently shaken until the metal has set, with a view to secure uniform fineness throughout the lump.
If they had stolen a horse, or our tent, or box of Sycee silver, I could have born it with equanimity, but the loss of articles so constantly in use was hard to bear.
Our lama received Sycee silver for the camel he sold.
It would be possible to change them for copper cash or Sycee silver, but that would involve delay and perhaps trouble.
The Bourgeois Philibert had exported largely to China the newly discovered ginseng, for which at first the people of the flowery kingdom paid, in their sycee silver, ounce for ounce.
Memorials were presented to the Emperor on the subject, and the export of sycee was prohibited.
Early one morning I was roused by Rung Budruck, the Captain's favourite sycee or groom.
Repeat, word for word, as closely as you can remember, all that was told you by the sycee Rung.
The sleepy Celestial seasons had gone flowering their way to paradise, and the opium-smuggler and her sycee silver lay safe and swallowed in ribs and jowl of quicksand.
The captain and purser are gloating over the sycee silver, for the Chinese government is as jealous of its exportation as of the importation of opium; and the sky and the sea are dark and angry.
And the sodden, stupefied merchantman, as if drunk with opium, goes yelling and staggering with her sleepy drugs to the bottom, and stays there, sycee silver and all.
On one occasion, when a small foraging party was out looking for poultry and bullocks, some Chinamen pointed out a spot where they said a quantity of Sycee silver had been concealed.
Upon the bodies of many of the slain, pieces of Sycee silver were found, as had been the case at Ningpo, a few days before.
Where, for instance, is the immense quantity of Sycee silver, which is annually exported from China, obtained?
A party arrived there in time to get possession of some Sycee silver which had not yet been removed from the offices; but it is supposed that much more had already been carried away by plunderers.
A few days afterwards I was much vexed by ascertaining that I might have taken Macartney prisoner, and with him a large sum of sycee destined to pay Gordon's mercenaries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sycee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
