| 单词 | joss |
| 例句 | There was a topmost scent of joss sticks and incense, like the fumes of some exotic smokehouse, but beneath the smoke lay a deeper and much more powerful stench. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Beijingers pray amid gnarled pine trees with burning joss sticks held aloft and shopping bags slung over wrists, while monks offer quiet blessings of beads brought by visitors in hidden corners. What to Do in Beijing 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Other comments included: “One day soon, @joss_berry will regret having tweeted this. What a ghoulish tweet,” and “she is openly pushing violence on Twitter,” and “This is gonna cost her a job.” Press secretary for Arizona’s Democratic governor tweets gun-toting image ripping ‘transphobes’ 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Taiwan's Chen Kun-huei, 82, is determined to keep alive an ancient tradition of making the "joss paper" by hand even as others have shifted to automated production at factories. Taiwan family helps keep hand-made 'joss paper' tradition alive 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z On a beach in southern Taiwan, thousands gathered as volunteers hoisted a 45-foot boat, lavishly painted in gold and red, on top of a mountain of joss paper. In Taiwan, a boat-burning festival aims to ward off sickness. Can it end the coronavirus pandemic? 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z On pavements and in housing compounds, some residents burned joss paper, a tradition believed to send money and wealth to deceased relatives. China mourns Covid-19 whistleblowers as Trump dismisses US face mask advice 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z People clean the graves and burn items such as joss sticks and paper offerings - sometimes quite large ones - to honour the dead and transmit money and other goods to loved ones in the afterlife. China pays 'virtual' respects to ancestors 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z On Wednesday evening, demonstrators burned joss paper and pointed lasers at a police station in Sham Shui Po in Kowloon, prompting the police to fire teargas in the residential area. Trump tells Beijing to treat Hong Kong humanely or risk trade deal 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Altogether, the Chens have been making joss paper for around 100 years. Taiwan family helps keep hand-made 'joss paper' tradition alive 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z During the boat-burning ceremony, attendees must not turn away, step on the joss paper or make loud noises for fear of inviting bad spirits. In Taiwan, a boat-burning festival aims to ward off sickness. Can it end the coronavirus pandemic? 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Some burned joss paper — part of the tradition of the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival, which begins Thursday — printed with the faces of Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and the police commissioner. After airport mayhem, Hong Kong protesters face tipping point in battle for hearts and minds 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z He visited Longhua Temple in Shanghai and was deeply moved by mounds of ash left from burning joss sticks. At LACMA, Chinese artworks zero in on a single material. Think ash. Or human hair 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z According to the announcer, she presented the king with a tray of flowers and joss sticks, and in return was bestowed traditional gifts associated with royal power. King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand marries his bodyguard, now Queen Suthida 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z "There are just too many temples in Taiwan," said Chen's daughter, Chen Miao-fang, explaining why demand for joss paper remains high. Taiwan family helps keep hand-made 'joss paper' tradition alive 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Early Tuesday, the first day of the year of the pig, hundreds lined up outside famous temples to burn the first joss sticks of the year, expecting it to bring them good luck. AP Photos: Asia greets year of the pig, farewells the dog 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z I am absolutely disgusted that @joss would do this to the original fans. Buffy the Vampire Slayer to get TV reboot 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z A recent escapee from the populist True Finns, she carries no discernible hippy tendencies – not a whiff of joss stick. A basic income for everyone? Yes, Finland shows it really can work | Aditya Chakrabortty 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z On some of the short plinths, in front of the headstone, people had placed lighted joss sticks that had long since burned down; only their stems remained, like the surviving bristles of an ancient toothbrush. How Singapore Is Creating More Land for Itself 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z The Chens' way of making joss paper is fading quickly due to a lack of people willing to do the repetitive work and competition from big commercial printers producing cheaper, colourful alternatives. Taiwan family helps keep hand-made 'joss paper' tradition alive 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z The Chinese believe that burning joss sticks, joss paper, and paper offerings - sometimes quite large ones - honours the dead and transmits money and other goods to their loved ones in the afterlife. Ancient Chinese tomb-sweeping festival goes hi-tech - BBC News 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Buddhist monks led prayers as well-wishers lit candles and fragrant joss sticks. As Thailand mourns death of longtime king, appeals to respect transition to heir 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Traditionally, it was by regularly tending their graves, bringing them fresh fruit and gourmet food and drink and burning joss paper. Gucci warns Hong Kong shops on paper fakes for funerals - BBC News 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z To this day, agarwood features in joss sticks, prayer beads and sculptures, while its oil is distilled for perfume. Trees That Gave Hong Kong It's Name Are Nearing Extinction 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The police initially said Mr. Zhang’s brothers were suspected of illegally starting a fire by burning joss sticks and paper at ancestral graves. Anonymous Call for Xi to Quit Rattles Party Leaders in China 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Many Buddhists believe that the incense from joss sticks serves as an aid to prayer and helps worshippers commune with deities and departed souls. Thai health ministry incensed over Chinese New Year joss sticks 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z At Bangkok’s Erawan Shrine, where 20 people were killed in August 2015 in the city’s worst bombing attack, mourners placed offerings of garlands, fruit and joss sticks as they paid their respects to the monarch. As Thailand mourns death of longtime king, appeals to respect transition to heir 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Uniformed police officers fed the joss into a roaring fireplace next to an altar that held burning incense and a photo of Officer Liu, toward which many bowed three times. Mourners Pay Respects to Wenjian Liu, Officer Slain in Brooklyn 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z The hungry spirits need to be appeased, so ethnic Chinese around the world offer prayers to their deceased relatives along with sticks of joss, or incense. AP Photos: Spirits roam during HK ghost festival 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z On the dusty counter are eggs, toothpaste, joss sticks and prawn crackers. The murky world of the illicit jade trade 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Chinese people usually visit graves or burial grounds of their ancestors and burn joss papers as a ceremony. China media: Malaysia abduction 2014-04-04T06:33:30Z Villagers, however, continue to place joss sticks at a makeshift roadside shrine seeking Buddha's blessing for justice, given nagging fears of fresh reprisals and land grabs in future. For China's rising political star, an early test 2013-03-14T03:37:19Z In another room, Chinese mourners performed a typical ritual, folding pieces of paper known as joss into shapes resembling gold ingots. Mourners Pay Respects to Wenjian Liu, Officer Slain in Brooklyn 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z Shops along its High Street selling crystals, alternative therapies and joss sticks easily outnumber those with the shopfronts of major retail brands. The independent coffee republic of Totnes 2012-08-07T10:51:09Z Before their shrines fires were kept constantly burning, and the place was heavy with the pungent odor of joss sticks and incense. Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z The cathedral, the mosque and the joss house have the same foundation. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z Two incense sticks, burning before a hideous joss idol, filled the air with acrid fumes. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z "Yon believe in your joss sticks, I see, Mr. Lung?" The Bradys After a Chinese Princess The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco 2011-09-06T02:00:11.117Z Here there were two secret rooms where there had once been a private joss house conducted by the Chinese "Tong" or guild known as the Brother of the Red Door. The Bradys' Chinese Clew The Secrect Dens of Pell Street 2011-08-17T02:00:26.867Z Desire of life made the poor fellow quite eloquent, but he might as well have appealed to a bronze joss. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Well," echoed Rupert lighting a cigarette, "I called at the joss house in Perry Street Whitechapel, and a nice sort of den it is. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z On every boat, a little soil and a few flowers, are as essential as the little joss-house and the little joss. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z Harry assented, and to the new Jackson street joss house, the most important Chinese temple of America, they went. The Bradys After a Chinese Princess The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco 2011-09-06T02:00:11.117Z With the exception of an occasional fling at old Mrs. Billing, whom he seemed to regard as a joss or a bottle imp, he was temperate, too, in his remarks about everybody else. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z Ray buys some vanilla-scented joss sticks and says: "I'm really sorry about leaving you here." Pass the bucks 2010-12-11T00:02:00Z For quite ten minutes Ainsleigh continued waving, until the joss stick burnt down nearly to the root. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z In the other, a small statue and a big poster of the actor are "worshipped", complete with a chanting Hindu priest and burning joss sticks. Chaplin town 2010-04-20T17:13:00Z So Harry stood waiting while the joss stick throwing went merrily on. The Bradys After a Chinese Princess The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco 2011-09-06T02:00:11.117Z Your joss was in, because the snow came down and they put up a smoke-screen and ceased fire, so we lost touch, and I hadn't far to come back to look for you. H.M.S. —— They'll be in here before you can light a joss stick. The Gray Mask It was distinctly nervous work however, and Olivia started back, as her husband set the joss stick fizzling. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z Every joss house will be the head of a secret society. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel I believe that the movement of the joss sticks in my case is controlled by the spirit of my dead father. The Bradys After a Chinese Princess The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco 2011-09-06T02:00:11.117Z With a brusque gesture he set us in motion, and we followed on from curtain to curtain down the gallery, and at the end near the joss we found him we sought. Where the Pavement Ends "I hear Mr. Schmidt and the joss," she said as she rose, while Margaret, unobserved, cast a thoughtful glance at the clerk. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington The joss stick smoked slowly and a queer odour diffused itself though the room. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z The basement, was a handsome joss house: upstairs was a durbar-hall with glazed verandahs and ebony furniture ranged across the room in four straight lines. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel There were about twenty Chinamen thus engaged when Harry entered the Jackson street joss house, and among them he spied Ah Lung throwing the sticks for all he was worth. The Bradys After a Chinese Princess The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco 2011-09-06T02:00:11.117Z Down at the far end low lights burned hot and small under wreaths of greasy incense, and a big, green joss grinned from a niche. Where the Pavement Ends Turning on his light, which struggled with the water and diffused a ghostly glow, he found himself confronted by a hideous little joss of red-and-gilt lacquer. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life The joss stick fizzled and burned and gave out its queer smell, which made both slightly dizzy. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z She might have been misunderstood for a housemaid masquerading had it not been for an air of assured power, a repose as monumental as that of a Chinese joss. Ancestors A Novel The big hall contained many Chinamen, most of them standing around with their hats on talking business, for this joss house has a good deal of the character of a Chinese commercial exchange. The Bradys After a Chinese Princess The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco 2011-09-06T02:00:11.117Z Except for the leering joss and the monstrous embroidered things on the walls the rooms showed empty. Where the Pavement Ends When they mounted the joss house stairs she lagged behind; and Bertram lagged with her. The Readjustment Clarence was rolling on the floor in close grips with Hwei, and the draperies of the joss flared away in a brilliant manner. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z Since that day the Chinese, who have never been warriors and love America anyway, have talked in their tea rooms and joss houses about the American President's plan to abolish war. Birdseye Views of Far Lands They passed out of the joss house and walked down Jackson street hill. The Bradys After a Chinese Princess The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco 2011-09-06T02:00:11.117Z He was fat and crass and ugly, that joss, a fit deity for such a den, and he seemed to nod and to listen! Where the Pavement Ends Oh, Mr. Heath—” she raised her voice, “are the actors allowed in the joss house—and if not will you have it fixed for me?” The Readjustment The rolling mass of Chinamen had extinguished the flaming joss, and Hwei, suddenly disengaging himself from the buccaneer, darted through the door. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z And one called out on a heathen joss and one on the Virgin's Name; And the schooling bullet leaped across and showed them whence they came. The Seven Seas It drained the State of all spare cash for the edification of its day-labor joss, and is about to pawn the State to foreign money lenders for more. The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia There were two or three grottoes, in one of which was a joss; and an arbour of lilacs and laburnums, in full bloom, gave a charming appearance to the whole. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery If, therefore, it were found that this gilt joss had a gold nose then the magistrate would know her tale was true. Life and sport in China Second Edition The boy followed with the rest of the assailants, and when Rupert and Burgh got their breath they found themselves facing the still smoking joss, with Tung-yu blandly smiling at them. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z There were two theaters in the quarter, a number of rich joss houses, three newspapers and a Chinese telephone exchange. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror The China-boys about the hotel tell us with superstitious awe that when a dust-storm lasts more than three days it is "bad joss." Peking Dust Entering the shrine, it is difficult to see for a few moments, so gloomy is the place and so grimy every object with the smoke of joss offerings from time immemorial. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The air is full of the scent of joss sticks. For Love of the King a Burmese Masque Hwei was here on the night poor Miss Wharf was killed, and dropped the joss stick. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z The fronts of the joss houses and the restaurants were brightened with many colored lanterns, quaint carved gilded woodwork, potted plants and dwarf trees. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror The entertainment was very sumptuous, the chief attractions being the fantastic decorations, the gorgeous “joss house” to a dead hero, and the chapel in honour of the Virgin del Pilar. The Philippine Islands The mausoleum soon became a shrine invested with miraculous power, and a number of years after his death General Ward was solemnly declared to be a joss or god. The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees “Me chin chin joss, lilly pijjin,” he answered, turning to me his round, unconscious, and imperturbable face as if he were engaged in some ordinary occupation of everyday life. Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea At the end there was a shrine with a hideous god set up therein, and before this, smoked some joss sticks giving out a strange perfume. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z At certain times of the year, direct questions were written on slips of paper and put into the hands of one of the greatest josses. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Ah Sing had gained a glimpse of the proceedings and had promptly barricaded himself in his quarters, where he took to burning joss sticks in wild panic. The Pirate Shark She felt as astonished as if some Confucian fanatic had set up his joss at auction. The Coast of Chance The tea house is but the ante-chamber to a joss house overhead, mendaciously advertised to be "the biggest outside of China," and to the theater proper. The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs Hwei went to the shrine and brought forth a joss stick. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z In one corner was a miniature wooden warrior, frantically riding a fiery steed toward a joss who stood in his doorway awaiting the rider’s coming. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror And being overlaid all the time, deeper and thicker, with this intangible, transparent, strong wall, hemming him in, shutting in the gold, just like that little joss there under the wineglass. Civilization Tales of the Orient The shrine was thick with the dust of years; the three gods were dishevelled and mutilated; no sheaves of joss sticks were smouldering on the altar. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma But his eyes did not move from the sacred whiskers of his joss. A Certain Rich Man Then he looked again, Olivia placed the still fizzling joss stick in the fender, and peered over his shoulder. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z These disappear and then the joss either nodded or shook his head in answer. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror And out of the little niche in the cunningly masked door the green-eyed joss leered at him complacently. The Golden Scorpion "Well, watch the great Chinese joss, Greenough, pull the props from under him when the time comes." Success A Novel If at dark we twirl a glowing joss stick in a circle, we do not see one point moving from place to place, but we see a continuous circular line. The Photoplay A Psychological Study "What right's that second hand joss to give orders in a free country, Hwei?" asked Clarence, "and don't you think, we'll give in without laying you out." The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z A furnace is a necessity in a joss house. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror "A life insurance company ought to employ you as a great joss, and charge people for the privilege of a mere glimpse of you." The Colossus A Novel Impenetrability of expression is doubtless a valuable attribute to a joss. Success A Novel "Are you quite sure this Chinese joss was on this table, when the music began?" asked Marie's companion of her, whisperingly. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 The ugly joss rolled on to the floor and caught fire. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z Among my purchases were a wooden pillow, some joss candles, a two-stringed fiddle, and a few preserved eggs, which they say are over a hundred years old. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months He preserved his queue, his pajamas, his chopsticks, and his joss in the crude and often brutal surroundings of the mining camp. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Otherwise so many josses would not display it. Success A Novel How often have I envied Hop Lung whin I see him burnin' his priceless joss sticks. Mr. Dooley Says This "joss" was a thick stake of wood, six or eight feet high, with the upper part roughly carved into the shape of a very ugly human face, and crudely coloured in vermilion and green. Korea's Fight for Freedom He held out his hand and responded to the Commissioner's greeting, but was at a joss for anything further to say. The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol We hoped that this muntjac was going to prove a "good joss," but instead a disappointing day was in store for us. Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China Him, Mr. Greenough, impassive joss of the city desk, regarded with a chill eye. Success A Novel You'd hardly believe it, perhaps, unless you're familiar with savages, but these poor, misguided, ignorant creatures took me straight to their kind of joss place to present me to the blessed old black stone there. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories At the entrance there sometimes stood the village "joss," although many villages had destroyed their idols. Korea's Fight for Freedom Lived some 500 years B. C. and taught the chinks the art of joss making, and how to do things backward. Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be Dare you forget that turquoise dawn When we stood in our mist-hung velvet lawn, And worked a spell this great joss taught Till a God of the Dragons was charmed and caught? The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems Displacing Mills with Culberson were much like substituting a Chinese joss for the Apollo Belvedere or an itch bacillus for a bull-elephant. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 Senior lady is as good-natured as a joss; and she likewise is no good. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books I don't know everything about josses, but I do know what they are worth. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints The clouds that resembled the streaky smokes of joss sticks were slowly extending over a clear sky, and by degrees they were absorbed, melted and changed to a faint fog. Botchan (Master Darling) Besides the mats, there was no other furniture in the room—only the coffin, and the old joss all green and blue and purple with age and polish. Indian Tales The policeman assured her that the appetite of the joss for gore remained unsatisfied, and led the way into the dimly-lighted building that served as a temple. Blindfolded Scarce an avenue but swarmed with female josses; little squat pug-dogs waddling at their sides, the attributes, I suppose, of these fair divinities. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents There's money to be made by a show of josses in London. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints But afterwards,—maybe his joss house got to be a hobby with him. The Belted Seas He was worshiping this joss, as he calls Clara's little jade god. The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings She pointed to numerous pieces of punk, such as serve the small boy on the Fourth of July, that were consuming slowly before the ugly joss. Blindfolded He had whirled at the sound of the opening of a door—a peculiar door set diagonally across a corner of the room behind the joss. The Perils of Pauline Devils trampling on the Cross, as a display line in some London poster announcing the arrival of "josses from Japan," might certainly have been relied on to catch the public eye. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints "You remember what Fu Shan said of his brother's joss house?" he says. The Belted Seas That was as near as he came to permitting himself to show his gratification over the promise of the joss. The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings The woman rose unsteadily and walking slowly round the joss manipulated some hidden fastening, whereupon the entire back of the thing opened like a door! Tales of Chinatown Quickly the door was reopened and they stepped into the dim, smoky, stifling presence of the joss. The Perils of Pauline You ought to have seen the bronzes, in those days, coming in from the temples,—bells and vases and josses! Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints Bates and I will take care that there isn't even a joss stick in the flat before we go to bed. Number Seventeen This, in Burton's facetious phrase, was "Mrs. Burton's joss house;" and occasionally, when they had differences, he threatened "to throw her joss house out of the window." The Life of Sir Richard Burton The tender one had fallen, there at the foot of the joss, and Kwen Lung, his teeth gleaming—like a rat—like a devil—turns to meet him. Tales of Chinatown Three priests were on their knees before the joss swaying forward till their foreheads almost touched the floor, their outstretched arms moving in mystic symmetry with their rocking bodies. The Perils of Pauline There are all the usual joss arrangements, and time is measured by the burning of joss-sticks. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither "It is odd, too, that you and the detectives should have noticed the smell of a joss stick in the flat," went on Miss Beale. Number Seventeen There were two theatres in the quarter, a number of rich joss houses, three newspapers and a Chinese telephone exchange. The City That Was; a requiem of old San Francisco Just as she fell there right up against the joss an' 'er blood trickled down on 'is gilded feet, old Ma Lorenzo comes staggerin' in. Tales of Chinatown The joss itself was almost the least impressive thing in the room. The Perils of Pauline But don't forget to burn a few punk sticks in the joss house to the great god Mazuma from time to time. The Four Million Edith—my niece, you know—could not bear the smell of joss sticks. Number Seventeen Got some signal, you bet!" said the driver; "some yeller paper or piece o' joss stick in the road. From Sand Hill to Pine "I see 'er blood on the joss an' on the floor where she lay!" Tales of Chinatown "You mean a joss house—a Chinese church, don't you." The Perils of Pauline A Chinese joss, perhaps; a funny human face on the profile of a rock, but nothing so vast, so awful, so large as this. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it The only peculiar thing, if I may so describe it, about the place, is the scent of a burnt joss stick. Number Seventeen At least a dozen have heard her say of our joss house that it is all monkey foolishness. On the Makaloa Mat I had never before visited Kwen Lung's, but the fame of his golden joss had reached me, and I know that he had received many offers for it, all of which he had rejected. Tales of Chinatown The little joss house is interesting in the same way that an Indian village at a State fair is interesting. The Perils of Pauline You'd hardly believe it, perhaps, unless you're familiar with savages, but these poor misguided, ignorant creatures took me straight to their kind of joss place to present me to the blessed old black stone there. Twelve Stories and a Dream A muttered "I understand—perfectly," showed this, and he did not strive to conceal the alarm which possessed him when Theydon spoke of the joss stick. Number Seventeen The young man who knew it hovered near, relying upon burnt sacrifices to the great joss, Luck. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million A moment later I found myself again in the room of the golden joss. Tales of Chinatown But it was not to the little joss house that Signor Baskinelli guided the party. The Perils of Pauline At the very hour that Kerry was hastening to Prince's Gate, Sin Sin Wa sat before the stove in the drug cache, the green-eyed joss upon his knee. Dope The aromatic odor of the burnt joss stick still clung to the suite of apartments, and Forbes noticed it at once. Number Seventeen Dare you forget that turquoise dawn, When we stood in our mist-hung velvet lawn, And worked a spell this great joss taught Till a God of the Dragons was charmed and caught? The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets For a while Harley stared abstractedly at the bloodstains on the pedestal of the joss and upon the floor beneath from which the matting had been pulled back. Tales of Chinatown Baskinelli took his guests to the joss house of the Golden Screens. The Perils of Pauline He took out the green-eyed joss, set it tenderly upon a corner of the table, and closed the cupboard door. Dope "Evidently he is not acquainted with the peculiar smell of a joss stick." Number Seventeen He lit a joss stick long and black. The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets Presently, then, I found myself yet again in the familiar room of the golden joss. Tales of Chinatown Kong Ho," thought this person inwardly, "not in vain have you burnt joss sticks unceasingly, for the enchanting one has said into your eyes that she would love to partake of a little dog. The Mirror of Kong Ho Sin Sin Wa plunged his hand down into the bag and drew out the gleaming wooden joss. Dope Walking over to the gilded joss he reclosed the opening and not without a great effort pushed the great idol back against the wall. Tales of Chinatown And the joss in the corner stirred again; And the carved dog, curled in his arms, awoke, Barked forth a smoke-cloud that whirled and broke. The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets "But," I explained, "the bloodstains on the joss!" Tales of Chinatown He secreted all in the interior of the joss—his treasure-chest. Dope Taking up the gleaming joss, he unscrewed its pedestal. Dope |
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