Dynasty of Columbus' day

Usage examples of ming.

Wailee Ming, Rachel Sexton, Norah Mangor, Michael Tolland, and Corky Marlinson.

By the time she was at the outskirts of the city, smelling the damp, piny smell of the early-mo ming air, she was feeling quite good again.

The five ships of the fleet, each with a complement of twenty or so variously warm bodies, human and saur, have primitive ship-to-ship and space-to-ground missiles, none of which would have impressed a moderately competent pyrotechnician of the Ming Dynasty, and a piratical arsenal of firearms and plasma rifles, which would.

Even then he had learned that an anchorman must be handled as delicately as a Ming vase and receive the deference accorded heads of state.

There was, furthermore, a squint-eyed Lithuanian skipper, wanted for murder in Riga and for piracy in Pernambuco, who took them to Vladivostok and into the tranquil presence of a Nanking compradore with gold-encased fingernails and a charMing taste in early Ming porcelain.

Muslim Mughal Empire of northern India that probably held that title, although the Ottoman Turks and Ming Chinese might have disputed the point.

Ming Dwan had left her desk and had gone into a rest room, where she peeled off her drab dark blue dress, turning it inside out so that it became a bright red shirtmaker consisting of combination skirt and blouse.

If we had about six jars of beans sprouting then we could rotate them and have something different every day: things like mung beans, aduki beans, fenugreek and chick peas.

They were not Chalidang, Kalindan, or any other race that Ari and Ming had yet seen, but seemed a kind of large animal designed for the water, yet almost certainly air breathers from the way they moved.

The choppers pivoted from the flaming wreckage, skim- ming the tips of the pine trees, hurrying toward the meadow beside the lake.

The Mings, with their steeped tea, rejoiced in light ware of white porcelain.

The native dynasty of the Mings which attempted re-nationalisation in the middle of the fifteenth century was harassed by internal troubles, and China again fell under the alien rule of the Manchus in the seventeenth century.

Ming figure identified as a Taoist divinity whose clothing, whose posture, whose facial expression, whose accompaniment of symbolic animals had associations that branched back hundreds and thousands of years, every such conjunction sub-scattering then into increasingly cryptic motifs involving taboos, legends, reincarnations, composite gods.

My grandfather was an important official in Yangzhou during the Ming dynasty, and he was brave too.

Princess Chang, the Princess Royal, daughter of last Ming Emperor Chong Zhen.