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Usage examples of mandarins.

The other mandarins would like nothing better than to use our misfortune to weaken the military.

Two dozen advisers, all mandarins, sat around the emperor in a large semicircle of heavy wooden chairs.

Perhaps the chief secretaries and mandarins did not feel the need for personal guards inside the summer palace, but the general did not share their confidence.

The mandarins, each riding in a covered sedan chair carried by four bearers, followed the imperial guards.

A few moments later, the first sedans arrived and the mandarins, dressed in white ceremonial robes, climbed out of their chairs.

Batu was so absorbed with his thoughts that he did not realize the emperor had finished the supplication until the mandarins began to rise.

As the Divine One and the mandarins turned toward the command tent, Batu frowned.

Kwan had arranged things so the emperor and mandarins were seated at the table in front, leaving no room for Batu.

Almost certainly, anything he said with the mandarins present would find its way to the ears of spies.

The guard on the outer wall had been doubled, and even mandarins were thoroughly searched when they entered or left the palace.

They have orders to search everyone who enters or leaves the palace, the mandarins, even myself, included.

The other mandarins already sat in their seats, their breath rising from their noses in wispy plumes of steam.

The other mandarins were no more inclined to listen to Ju-Hai Chou than they had been to believe the messengers were legitimate.

The two disgraced mandarins watched Batu leave, one with an expression of sad regret and the other with an expression of spiteful retribution.

Its major patrons were the big men in the mobs, successful entrepreneurs and merchants and the more overtly corrupt mandarins of the bureaucracy.