Early Annamese

Usage examples of cham.

The Chams of Annam and Cambodia say that the goddess of good luck used to resuscitate people as fast as they died, till the sky-god, tired of her constant interference with the laws of nature, transferred her to the moon, where it is no longer in her power to bring the dead to life again.

Never mind the debate over whether the fuel cham baffle in the heavy lift booster could be four-partitio without affecting the carefully chosen harmonious n bers of the tank design.

Sitting at a table, drinking Ale, observing the Mist thro' the Window-Panes, Mason forty-five, the Cham sixty-four.

GLOSSARY Amir prince, ruler of chammur belbun chammuran term for four-legged rat bindi paint, metal, or jewel placed between the eyebrows bunjingi miniature tree form in which trunk is long, with a few branches balanced at the upper end cham large sum coin in chammur.

Born in blood, it had feasted upon the indigenous Chams, the neighboring Cambodians and the Laotians.

Angkor has survived conquests in the fifth century by the Chams, and the twelfth century by the Siamese, but neglect is another story.

We joined up with Coron Aldor's warband, and just afterward the company came to a stronghold of Spaunen, and we confronted their leader, their cham, and showed him the remains of the despoilers.

He had rushed from the audience cham ber as soon as Matron Malice had dismissed him, and had slipped away from his brother at the first opportunity, wanting only to be alone.

The gnome leader looked back to Drizzt one fi nal time as two drow fighters ushered him out of the cham ber, and he recognized the true anguish, and the apology, behind the young drow's feigned impassive facade.

Chani had other worries during these years beyond those of a negotiator Five times during this period, attempts were made on the Royal Concubine s life, once the would-be assassin managed to infiltrate her apartments and might have succeeded m his aim had his knifcwork been just a fraction more expert Chani managed to dispatch him with her cryskmfe and stormed into the Council Chamber without pausing to change her robe The sight of her bursting into the room, stained with her assailant's blood, her hand still poised on the sheathed cryskmfc's handle, threw the table into an uproar Amid the confusion, Lady Jessica-as Cham had antici pated she would-focused her attention on Irulan, soon to be Paul's Consort-m-name The Princess was genuinely stunned, but what convinced Jessica of Irulan's innocence was the brief expression of surprised pleasure that escaped her before her Bene Gessent .

For a while Rick thought that might be their destination, but the Keller car took a fork in the road at the town of Cham, rounded the northern end of Lake Zuger See, passed through Zug, turned north to Baar, then northeast to Lake Zurich.

Smoke rolled freely from cham- ber to chamber through the body of the CST, a ship built on lateral lines to avoid transfer of equipment up and down ladder wells.