What is "joss"

Usage examples of "joss".

That privilege belonged only to one like Soy Foon - a favorite who had actually met the Living Joss face to face.

The Living Joss handed the note to Soy Foon, and uttered words in Chinese.

A voice in the crowd volunteered that the man could well be Joss Gappy, an apprentice shoemaker from New Cobblers.

Joss accepted with a geekish grin, now comfortably changing his personality with each stranger he met.

Joss took out the map on which Barney had marked their navigational route through the treacherous mud flats, hugging the side of the island until the secluded tie-off point, and then the swim through the murky waters of the canal to the back of the Ruga Fondamente foundry.

At midnight Sooey Wan came in from Chinatown, following a prodigious burning of devil papers in a local joss house and a somewhat profitable two hours of poker.

His thwarting power hidden from the knowledge of the Living Joss, the master of darkness was again preparing for the next stroke of Kwa!

But Yat Soon had received no word from The Shadow since that one visit in which the arbiter had given his veiled approval of the quest for the Joss.

CHAPTER XII THE CRAFT OF DOCTOR TAM WHILE Yat Soon, the arbiter, was still pondering on the facts presented by the mandarin, Shan Kwan, two men were guarding the Fate Joss in its obscure abode.

Introduced by irritating stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr, this four-hour show, shown over two consecutive nights and voted for by the public, included often lengthy and well-chosen clips and trailers from movies, TV shows, commercials, public service announcements and music videos, with commentary by Patrick Allen, Jane Asher, Rick Baker, Doug Bradley, Bruce Campbell, John Carpenter, Chris Carter, Alice Cooper, Wes Craven, Sean Cunningham, Shelley Duvall, Robert Englund, Fenella Fielding, William Friedkin, Mark Gatiss, Jerry Goldsmith, Muriel Grey, Gunnar Hansen, Dennis Hopper, Sara Karloff, Mark Kermode, John Landis, Christopher Lee, Janet Leigh, Kevin McCarthy, Kyle McLachlan, Michael Madsen, Nigel Kneale, Kim Newman, Dave Prowse, Ed Sanchez, David Skal, Stephen Spielberg, Stephen Volk, Sigourney Weaver and Joss Whedon, among many others.

Jimmy Carr, this four-hour show, shown over two consecutive nights and voted for by the public, included often lengthy and well-chosen clips and trailers from movies, TV shows, commercials, public service announcements and music videos, with commentary by Patrick Allen, Jane Asher, Rick Baker, Doug Bradley, Bruce Campbell, John Carpenter, Chris Carter, Alice Cooper, Wes Craven, Sean Cunningham, Shelley Duvall, Robert Englund, Fenella Fielding, William Friedkin, Mark Gatiss, Jerry Goldsmith, Muriel Grey, Gunnar Hansen, Dennis Hopper, Sara Karloff, Mark Kermode, John Landis, Christopher Lee, Janet Leigh, Kevin McCarthy, Kyle McLachlan, Michael Madsen, Nigel Kneale, Kim Newman, Dave Prowse, Ed Sanchez, David Skal, Stephen Spielberg, Stephen Volk, Sigourney Weaver and Joss Whedon, among many others.

Joss Hayes felt heat creeping up the back of his collar as he exited the command center, his quintet of MACO officers following close behind him for the brief turbolift ride down to the armory on F deck.

Joss for what he had achieved, and her doubts about the wisdom of marrying him had nothing to do with the fact that he had been born in a Glaswegian slum and she in an expensive private nursing home.

The pointer had been a birthday gift from Joss to Gramps, and with the loyalty of her breed had attached herself to him devotedly.

Transformed to another person, this man who had been Kwa no longer bore any resemblance to the so-called Living Joss.