What is "triads"

Usage examples of "triads".

Helmsman was greatly pleased to hear of these exploits, and decided that since the Triads and the Mu Family were allies in the struggle against the Tartars, he ought to put them fully in the picture.

Subsequently in his encounter with the Triads he is made Master of the Green Wood Lodge.

The Triads, who had by now put aside all of their earlier suspicions, ate with a hearty appetite, and filled their cups enthusiastically.

Trinket, Xu the Eight-Armed Ape, Big Beaver, Brother Li, and all the other Triads walked out of the door, and the Young Count, Iron Dragon Liu, and the other members of the Mu Family, having seen them off, and Trinket into his sedan chair, went back inside.

Option but to go with Xu directly to the place where the Triads had gathered to welcome their erlief.

And he had focused on the Satrap, a man loathed if anything more ferociously by the Mu Family than by the Triads, since it was the Satrap who had per-sonally ordered the execution of the Gui Tretender and of his devoted Duke.

Tianchuan tried to steer them away from this personal tiff, his main concern being to preserve the harmony between the Triads and the Mu Family.

It was clear that the new occupant was not a Triad and that the Triads had moved their headquarters to somewhere else in the city.

Manchu Court were likely to be connected with the Triads in some way, and wondered if he could find some means of freeing them.

Seeing so great a multitude all dedicated to the extermination of Satrap Wu, Trinket began to wonder if the Triads and the Mu faction, who were in friendly rivalry to see which of them could accomplish this aim the soonest, might not both of them be beaten by some third group from among those present.

A Triad whom Trinket recognized as Butcher Qian from his own Lodge asked which branch the Triads ought to join, bearing in mind that they had members in every province.

Obscurus caught him and threw him to Brother Gao, Brother Gao threw him to Big Beaver, and two or three other Triads spread themselves out in a circle in order to join in the game.

Feng and the Triads now professed themselves wholly convinced that Trinket was indeed the heroic slayer of the evil Manchu Regent.

Young Sir Zheng was handed over, and after an exchange of courtesies and an invitation to Trinket to visit them on Sitting Ox Mountain whenever he liked, the Triads mounted their horses and rode away.

She had not been taken in by the little pantomime he had put on with the Triads and guessed that they were friends of his.