cathayan
Usage examples of "cathayan".
Two Cathayans were assigned me as translators while Bactrian cavalry and foot soldiers acted as military escort.
Prince Jeta told Ananda about my Cathayan adventures, the holy man affected interest.
But it was Prince Jeta, not Ananda, who asked me to expound the wisdom of the Cathayans.
Since most Cathayan temples are made of wood, I am fairly certain that even the most ancient temple is simply a phoenixlike recreation of a long-vanished original.
Anthemius of Tralles, or if some wandering Cathayan had brought knowledge of it westward, Gwalchmai had jno way of knowing.
With these Agrican, not distinguished in the crowd, entered the place, driving both Circassians and Cathayans before him, and the portcullis being dropped, he was shut in.
Since the spring terrace play is the high point of the year for all Cathayans, various magnates curry favor with heaven—.
Since the spring terrace play is the high point of the year for all Cathayans, various magnates curry favor with heaven -- and the people -- by financing the festivities, rather the way they do nowadays in certain Greek cities.
Since the spring terrace play is the high point of the year for all Cathayans, various magnates curry favor with heaven-and the people-by financing the festivities, rather the way they do nowadays in certain Greek cities.
The carriage and wagons formed a semicircle in front of the conical hill which contained if not the legendary Wu, then at the very least a monarch of demonstrable antiquity, since the mound was covered with that symbol of majesty the dwarf pine, which takes a thousand years to mature into those graceful hieratic shapes that Cathayans admire.
This is the Cathayan formula for going native in some wild and uncivilized part of the world.
The ritual of a Cathayan dinner party is almost as elaborate as a religious ceremony.