"Shantung" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... beating fast under embroidered, dove-coloured chiffon and pale gray Shantung, a dress too elaborate for a railway journey; and she had no eyes for the fairylike greenness of the place, the mountain-side shadowed by tall trees, or rocks clothed in delicate ferns and spouting ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... Williamson mentions asbestos as found in Shantung. The natives use it for making stoves, crucibles, and ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... years of Kiautschau, a small area of about four hundred square miles on the coast of China, was obtained from the Chinese in connexion with the murder of two German missionaries in 1897 in the Shantung Province, of which Kiautschau forms a part. Herr von Buelow, then only Foreign Secretary, referred to the transaction in the Reichstag in words that may be quoted, as they describe German foreign policy in the Far East. "Our cruiser fleet," ...
— William of Germany • Stanley Shaw
... tableau had suffered an explosion. It had for some mysterious reason glibly identified as reaction burst into fragments and vanished in a skyrocket chaos. Shantung, Poland, little nations, pogroms, plebiscites, Ireland, steel strikes, red armies, Fourteen Points, The Truth About This, The Real Story of That, the League of Nations, the riots in Berlin, in Dublin, ...
— Erik Dorn • Ben Hecht |
