Yamen

The person I liked best was the old gentleman with the lint-white locks who said 'Yamen' so persistently in the wrong place all through; I grew quite interested at last, and knew the exact spot where it was likely to come in.

Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

When the Yamen officials are very bad, the number of tigers increases so much, that plenty of people are devoured by them.

Lunheng 1962

Yamen who counseled protection of the foreigners were beheaded.

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Protest was followed by demand and demand by renewed protest, to be met with perfunctory edicts from the Palace and evasive and futile assurances from the Tsung-li Yamen.

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We were mounted, the interpreter and I, on ponies provided by the Yamen, one worse than the other, and both unfit for the rough scramble.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

No reply being received, on the morning of the 20th the German minister, Baron von Ketteler, set out for the Yamen to obtain a response, and oil the way was murdered.

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An identical note from the, Yamen ordered each minister to leave Peking, under a promised escort, within twenty-four hours.

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The Tsung-li Yamen, already permeated with hostile sympathies, could make no effective response to the appeals of the legations.

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Indeed, the only communication had with the Chinese Government related to the occasional delivery or dispatch of a telegram or to the demands of the Tsung-li Yamen for the withdrawal of the legations to the coast under escort.

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Yamen, from whom a message came inviting to a conference, which was declined.

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