City in China known for its terra-cotta warriors

Usage examples of xian.

After Beijing he would head northwestward to Uriimqi and Turpan, where Louisa had written to a linguist and other scholars and made reservations for him, and she would head south to Xian, and Nanjing, and more meetings with her fellow citizens in the small world of folklorists.

This area is under the beneficent control of General Xian, The Shining Path.

Then we find someplace to stay until General Xian or someone like him contacts us again.

Once they reached an intersection and turned off the access road, they felt less vulnerable to a retaliatory attack from Xian or his lieutenants.

Before General Xian appeared on the scene, this was the sole territory of a certain General DiCiancia, a man one could do business with.

General Xian, and DiCiancia will be content to go back to the way things were before?

But maybe after we take care of Xian for you, DiCiancia will hire us to take care of you.

Sounds of close-in combat penetrated to their level, and Ray, Ake, and the dogs guessed that it was only a matter of time before Xian triumphed.

Kyle said, I can give you everything from murals of Xian and the Forbidden City to Manhattan at night and the Rocky Mountains at any time.

When his sire, Coron Eiron, sent Galarun unto the forges of the Mages, there below Black Mountain in Xian, he asked me if I would go with his son, but I would have gone regardless.

Ah, thought Xian, what good is all this stem-cell replacement therapy if you lose your courage, if you age inside?