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Example sentences for "tong"

Lexicographically close words:
tone; toned; toneladas; toneless; tones; tonge; tonges; tonging; tongs; tongue
  1. Jackson and Wing Wu followed him: Chung Tong dropped heavily into one of the golden seats that lined the entrance lobby, and groaned.

  2. Chung Tong moved more slowly than the rest.

  3. The three men crouched near the hole, waiting for Chung Tong to appear.

  4. We'll see if Chung Tong can tell us any more.

  5. Thus, for instance: "With thy tong thou mayst thyself spylle, And with tong thou mayst haue all thy wylle.

  6. The Gova, the district chief, of Tong rules over several villages in the neighbourhood, and lives like a prince in his solid house.

  7. Now, what I want to know is what the Hop Sing tong means by shipping the departed brethren by freight?

  8. In an old plan, dated 1739, of which we have a tracing before us, there are no less than seven buildings comprising the farm, which was the largest on the Tong estate.

  9. At Tong they went one better, for there are traditions of AEolian harps set in the masonry of the farmyard of the castle.

  10. The Long Porter's Tale There are things that are known only to the long porter of Tong Tong Tarrup as he sits and mumbles memories to himself in the little bastion gateway.

  11. With dawn there appeared above him among its amazing crags the town of Tong Tong Tarrup, with the light on its frozen stairs, a tiny cluster of houses far up in the sky.

  12. He had already passed above the snow and had set his foot on a step of the earthward stairway that goes down from Tong Tong Tarrup on to the rocks, when the long porter saw him.

  13. Not even fabulous beasts were near him now, nor strange demoniac trees--nothing but snow and the clean bare crag above it on which was Tong Tong Tarrup.

  14. It seems that one clear morning a hundred years ago, a visitor to Tong Tong Tarrup was climbing up from the world.

  15. And yet the more I investigate the story that the long porter told me in the town of Tong Tong Tarrup the more plausible the alternative theory appears--that that grizzled man is a liar.

  16. Jones asked what part of the Edge of the World he should go to, and the magician had heard Tong Tong Tarrup well spoken of; so he paid him, as is usual, in opals, and started at once on the journey.

  17. Having dispatched a former lieutenant, Tong Shao-yi, to Shanghai as his Plenipotentiary, he soon found himself committed to a course of action different from what he had originally contemplated.

  18. Windsor and the Vernon effigy (1537) at Tong the pendant to the knight's collar is a large double rose.

  19. I had heard from monks who were in Tong at the time that he had written down his wish to be let out.

  20. No doubt the Bombo has heard in Tong of the lama who lived in the hermitage of the monastery Lung-ganden-gompa for sixty-nine years, completely shut off from the world and the light of day.

  21. Tong Chung-so was a Chinaman of great note.

  22. The second booke teachyng And although the Latin tong did faire blome and blossome in L.

  23. Ye know not, what hurt ye do to learning, that care not for wordes, but for matter, and so make a deuorse betwixt the tong and the hart.

  24. Antonius, yet in Tullies tyme onely, and in Tullie himselfe chieflie, was the Latin tong fullie ripe, and growne to the hiest pitch of all perfection.

  25. In the company of soch, who, neuer geuing theyr mynde to honest doyng, could neuer inure their tong to wise speaking.

  26. And surelie, if Varros bookes had remained to posteritie, as by Gods prouidence, the most part of Tullies did, than trewlie the Latin tong might haue made good comparison with the Greke.

  27. Latin tong can not well beare, as Casus Tub.

  28. And although Carmen Exametrum doth rather trotte and hoble, than runne smothly in our English tong, yet I am sure, our English tong will receiue carmen Iambicum as naturallie, as either Greke or Latin.

  29. Alsoe two stand on the Lecture day with the twoe former but noe clefte sticke on their Tong only a paper on his head subscribed for lying.


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