Its main entrance is large and imposing, and the great gates suggest those of the yamen of some high official.
It was equally impossible to deposit the coffin in the yamen he was about to leave, for the new mandarin who was soon to arrive would certainly object to have the body of a stranger in such close proximity to his family.
The next day a young priest, with shaven head and dressed in the usual slate-coloured gown, appeared at the yamen of the Prefect to solicit subscriptions for the neighbouring monastery.
At last in sheer despair Mr. Wang accepted a position in theYamen (City Hall) for just his food.
During those long winter months Mr. Wang sat at his desk in the Yamen the face of the missionary seemed to come before him vividly--so kind, so true, so different from any face he had ever seen before.
Close to the Mission is the yamen of the Chentai or Brigadier-General, the Military Governor of this portion of the province, and a little further is the more crowdedyamen of the Fu Magistrate.
No sooner was I seated than a chairen came from the yamen to ask for my Chinese visiting card; but he did not ask for my passport, though I had brought with me twenty-five copies besides the original.
The palace is on a higher level even than the yamen of the Viceroy, and must intercept much of the good fortune that would otherwise flow into the city.
Were he to rob me or do me a wrong and run away, we could arrest his father and have him detained in the yamen prison till his son returned.
During his residence he had built for himself a splendid yamen of granite and marble.
The yamenof the Taotai is a humble residence for so important an official; but the yamen of the Titai, between the South Gate and the Five Glory Tower, is one of the finest in the province.
When the Tsungli Yamenin Peking sends a telegram to the Viceroy in Yunnan it is in code that the message comes; and it is by private code also that a Chinese bank in Shanghai telegraphs to its far inland agents.
I had a long wait at the yamen gate while they were arranging where to send me, but by-and-by two yamen-runners came and conducted me to the City Temple.
There was great difficulty in inducing the yamen to take action, but at last the wife was arrested.
No sooner was I seated at an inn than two messengers from the yamen called for my passport.
Frequently Kwai took one of the yamen boys with him and went there to study, and once at night when it had grown late and the boy who accompanied him had taken his departure, the door opened suddenly and a young woman came in.
Suddenly he decided on a plan, caught her, swung her on to his back, and rushed out through the gate into the yamen quarters, where he shouted at the top of his voice for his stepmother and the servants to come.
Once when His Excellency had gone out on an inspecting tour, the yamen was left vacant, and Kwai was there with her.
A little larger demand for tribute, a case of rank injustice, and he became the object of the people's wrath and would quite likely see his Yamen in a blaze, or pay with his life for his greed.
I saw them from a veranda in the Yamen where we women were unseen.
She went from courtyard to courtyard, and for a time I fully expected she would send to the Yamen for the soldiers; then she realised the woman was within her right, and so restrained her-self.
We are in the Yamen where I lived as a young girl, but now all is changed.
Just now I have stopped my letter to see a woman who was brought to the Yamen for trying to kill her baby daughter.
Upon the receipt of this, an order is issued to the runners to go and arrest the accused with all possible dispatch and bring him to the Yamen so that he may be tried.
In many cases he has been known to return to his Yamen thousands of dollars richer than when he left it.
My Yamen is out of repair, and if you will call a builder and have it thoroughly overhauled, I shall be willing to let you off any further punishment.
A farmer, for example, comes one day into the Yamen to lay a complaint against a rich neighbour who has taken forcible possession of some of his fields.
On their return to the Yamen they report that the man is still away from home, and though they have made diligent inquiries they have not yet been able to trace his whereabouts.
The farmer, perfectly certain that the cloth was in the possession of the rich man, and seeing no way of obtaining redress, wended his way to the Yamen of the mandarin to ask his advice on the matter.
Man Hsien is the last yamen place before reaching the British border.
As I came out of the inn at Ch'u-hsiong-fu somewhat hurriedly, for my men lingered long over the rice, I stumbled over the yamen fellow who crouched by the doorside.
Midway down the stone footway my yamen runner too cautiously crept up to me in the dark, muttering something, and I floored him with my fist.
The yamen fellow turned back at me and chuckled rudely to himself.
The Prefect of Ichang Province said it was true that missionaries did get the Chinese childrens' eyes for making medicine, so my father suggested having those blind children brought into the Yamen and ask them.
When I was at the Shi An I was just like being sent into exile, although the Viceroy's Yamen was prepared for us, but the building was very old, damp and unhealthy.
Later he was Minister to Japan, which post he quitted in 1898 to become President of the Tsung-li-yamen (Chinese Foreign Office).
I told her that I had, having seen the convicts being whipped at a Magistrate's Yamen when I was a little girl living at Shansi (on the Yangtsze).
Yamen is the name given to the residences of all high officials.
At a critical moment, however, the French and Russian ministers intervened, and practically forced the Yamen to grant a contract in favour of the Franco-Belgian company.
The Tsung-Li-Yamen was to be reformed and the ceremonial for the reception of foreign ministers modified as the powers should demand.
Tsung-li Yamen = the bureau for managing each (foreign) kingdom's affairs.
The Yamen had a few days before explicitly promised the British minister that the contract should not be ratified without his having an opportunity of seeing it.
This sub-prefect was a man of a very covetous disposition and in all matters connected with the supplies of his yamen he forced the people to commute their obligations into cash payments.
Obedient Yamen Answered, "Amen," And did As he was bid.
The tsung-li-yamen has sent a vague and temporizing reply to the foreign ministers’ demand requiring the suppression of the Boxers.
The last word, now some days since, which came through the tsung-li-yamen and is therefore untrustworthy, was that they were safe at present.
Therefore the tsung-li-yamen and cabinet are supporting this movement, which is intended to exterminate all foreigners and Christian converts.
Tsung-li-yamen has refused to allow a reinforcement of the legation guards now in Peking.
He rode, as is customary, to the tsung-li-yamen from his legation in a sedan chair.
Upon Baron von Ketteler representing this to the tsung-li-yamen he was given no satisfactory answer to account for it.
Of the others remaining in the tsung-li-yamen after their retirement, none dared say anything against the movement for fear they also would be shelved.
The tsung-li-yamen has not yet replied to the joint note sent them by the foreign ministers four days ago, requesting that the Boxers be dealt with summarily.
The yamen sent word that if we would refrain from firing they would positively stop all volleys on their side.
Rosthorn was shown by Mr. Pichon a letter from the tsung-li-yamen to the ministers, promising them protection.
Viceroy of Chihli has been ordered by theyamen to allow guards to take train for Peking, but requested ministers to bring only small guards, as last year.
The tsung-li-yamen has requested the foreign ministers not to bring troops, assuring them they are not necessary; but the situation here has at last impressed them, and they have disregarded the yamen and ordered up guards at once.
Arriving one day at Yeh, the magistrate there seized the box, and taking it into his yamen asked the dwarf whence he came.
Now it chanced that the yamenof one of the officials was haunted by a fox, and the official's daughter was bewitched by it.
And, in addition to this they shall be required to present themselves to the yamen and make good all losses.
We afterwards learned that they were only the retainers of the local Kiao-chou yamen to see us to the border of the hinterland, which Governor Yuan's troops were not permitted to cross.
Even the yamen of a district magistrate presents crumbling walls, unkempt courtyards, rickety buildings and paper-covered windows full of holes.
At the walled city of Si-sui, sixty li distant, soldiers met us and apparently the whole population lined the streets as we rode to our inn, where the yamen secretary was awaiting us with a feast.
Attendants from the yamen with their red tasselled helmets were numerous and attentive.
We must decide, in view of these replies, that there exists in general rather a pessimistic opinion as to the advantages of applying to the yamen in behalf of Christians.
Politically, it is that territory of Western Arabia between the Hejaz and Yamen in which the Idrisi has more control than anyone since his successful revolt against the Turks a year or two before the War.
Missionaries were allowed to enterYamen before the War, but did not establish themselves, even on the coast.
The northern boundary of Yamen may be said nowadays to trend north-east from Loheia inland through highland country to the desert borders of Nejran (once a Christian diocese).
In Yamen proper it should be feasible to travel again within certain limits as soon as the Imam can come to an understanding with the tribal chiefs.
Christianity lasted in Yamenup to the tenth century A.
The Turks knew all about this, for the leakage of Aden affairs which trickles through Lahej and over the Yamen border is, and has been for years, a flagrant scandal.
No reply being received, on the morning of the 20th the German minister, Baron von Ketteler, set out for the Yamen to obtain a response, and on the way was murdered.
Members of the Tsung-li Yamen who counseled protection of the foreigners were beheaded.
To gain time they replied, asking prolongation of the time, which was afterwards granted, and requesting an interview with the Tsung-li Yamen on the following day.
An identical note from the Yamen ordered each minister to leave Peking, under a promised escort, within twenty-four hours.
Indeed, the only communication had with the Chinese Government related to the occasional delivery or dispatch of a telegram or to the demands of the Tsung-li Yamen for the withdrawal of the legations to the coast under escort.
Shortly after we had driven back through the rain and had mounted the stairs to Mr. Sowerby's library, a Yamenrunner was shown into the room, bearing presents from the provincial judge.
Every Yamen has three great gates barring the way to the inner compound.
I was attached, as interpreter, to the yamen of the tao-tai.
It is because I could not bring myself to obey the order of the throne that the republican agitator, Sun Shi-pi who had sought sanctuary at my yamen in Nanking should be at once beheaded.
After sounding the Foreign Office that astute diplomatist was able to inform the Tsungli-Yamen in 1869 that "the British Government was so friendly and pacific that they would endure anything.
The Yamen was established by imperial decrees in January; Mr Bruce and M.
He recommended the memorial to the consideration of the Tsung-li Yamen for report.
All the members of the Yamen were present; I was received with all respect as their guest.
The Tsung-li Yamen and Board of War were ordered to report on the suggestion that the Imperial Courier posts should be abolished in favour of the Imperial Customs post; and the establishment of newspapers was encouraged.
He ordered the Tsung-li Yamen to report on the necessity of encouraging art, science, and modern agriculture.
To this I replied: "Our ancestors never had a Tsung-li Yamen [Board to deal with foreigners and foreign affairs].
The Board of War and the Tsung-li Yamen were ordered to report on the proposed reform of military examinations.
His Chinese letters of recommendation, given him by the Tsung-li-yamen to the viceroys of the three great provinces through which he passed, proved of inestimable value.
An identical note from the, Yamen ordered each minister to leave Peking, under a promised escort, within twenty-four hours.
No reply being received, on the morning of the 20th the German minister, Baron von Ketteler, set out for the Yamen to obtain a response, and oil the way was murdered.
His yamen is about the Three-eyed Gate of Tai, a half-day's journey to the south.
In Yu-ping, therefore, loyalty wears a fully round face and about the yamen of Shan Tien men speak almost in set terms.
Outside lies a barren region of the yamen garden where no one ever comes.
It is possible that where foreigners are not mixed up in the matter there may not be so many anxious listeners, but there are few things about a yamen that are not known by those whose interest it is to know them.
The streets are too narrow for this, and the yamen and the office are separated from any possible interference with business by street noises.
The viceroy's yamen is situated more than a mile from the river, so that a large number of troops are required to line the streets.
The yamen is surrounded by an extensive park, in which is some good timber.
The yamen of a high official, with his residence, covers a large area, as no house is built more than one story high.
Still in some doubt as to what the nature of his reception would be, Ling had no choice but to take this course, and accordingly he again reached the Yamen in such a manner, carried by two persons whom he had obtained for the purpose.
The Mandarin in question lived during the reign of the accomplished Emperor Tsint-Sin, his Yamen being at Fow Hou, in the Province of Shan-Tung, of which place he was consequently the chief official.
By the time he reached the Yamen a tempest of exceptional violence was in progress, nor were other omens absent which tended to indicate that matters of a very unpropitious nature were about to take place.
Presently the door of the Yamen was opened by an attendant of the house, and Ling bidden to enter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yamen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
