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Example sentences for "yellow peril"

  • The dread of cheaper labour and of the "Yellow Peril," as it is called.

  • The Japanese Baron, a burly, cheerful man, laughed heartily as he dealt with the alarmist fears of the 'Yellow Peril.

  • At last Barney MacTague dared me to drive the Yellow Peril past the dead-line--down by the Pavilion--and on up the hill to Sutro Baths.

  • A dollar looked bigger to me, just then, than a wheel of the Yellow Peril.

  • Coming around up the beach front Ingleside House a few days before, in the Yellow Peril--my machine--we got to badgering each other about doing things not orthodox.

  • The "yellow peril" bogey is, in my opinion, the silliest and most absurd cry that has ever been put forward by responsible persons.

  • The nincompoops and quidnuncs and newspaper men ravenous for copy who prate about a "yellow peril" may, in this latter fact, find some slight excuse for their blatant lucubrations.

  • The only "yellow peril" that I have been able to diagnose is the peril to the trade of Europe and the United States of America with China--a peril that appears to me to be imminent.

  • There is no "yellow peril," no prospect whatever of it, either present or remote.

  • We might permit ourselves to speak of a Yellow Peril if there was a white solidarity.

  • The exciting effects of Pan-Islamism upon the warlike peoples of Asia and Africa have been frequently discussed, while the "Yellow Peril" has long been a journalistic commonplace.

  • There are some men in the East who affect to regard this rapprochement between Japan and China with alarm, as carrying in its development the menace of a really genuine `yellow peril.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been otherwise; but not being able; certain members; comparatively little; fallen snow; historical fact; large block; merry little; now and; physical geology; psychic phenomena; vain attempted; yellow bird; yellow color; yellow five; yellow flowers; yellow ground; yellow light; yellow paper; yellow pine; yellow precipitate; yellow spot; yellow stain; yellow streak; yellowish brown; yellowish green