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  • But what is the use of humming Hsieh T'iao's poem.

    Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

  • Gum osgia sésh iao foso dja bea ehaa tha rer. óch aja boach noimoc bed met, tehic asr.

    What language? 2009

  • Gum osgia sésh iao foso dja bea ehaa tha rer. óch aja boach noimoc bed met, tehic asr.

    7 posts from November 2009 2009

  • Gum osgia sésh iao foso dja bea ehaa tha rer. óch aja boach noimoc bed met, tehic asr.

    What language? 2009

  • Touching the athame's point against the wood, he muttered, "Huessemigadon iao ao baubo eeaeie ..."

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • Last November Hu Ch'iao-mu, Teng's top economic adviser, announced that average per capita grain production in 1977 was about the same as in 1955.

    Has China Failed? An Exchange Blecher, Marc 1979

  • Chao (26) approves and quotes Ch ` ên Ch ` iao-ts ` ung (I shuo k ` ao 2. 12a):

    Han Shih Wai Chuan 1952

  • The personal name of this commentator is given as above by Cheng Ch ` iao in the TUNG

    The Art of War 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi

  • G. Sarton, Li Ch'iao-p'ing, J. Pru [vs] ek, J. Needham, and M. Ishida; a comparative, general study is by K. Huuri, _Studia Orientalia_ vol. 9,

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • + Jao (Iao, perhaps from Jahu, Jahveh, but possibly also from the magic cry iao in the mysteries) is Jupiter.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

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