joss-house

The pantomime is expressive and interesting, and all so strange that the spectator shivers a bit, though the sight of the steeple of a nearby Christian church rising above the joss-house is reassuring...

1897: Strange Tales of Highbinders and Child Actors 2007

The pantomime is expressive and interesting, and all so strange that the spectator shivers a bit, though the sight of the steeple of a nearby Christian church rising above the joss-house is reassuring...

Archive 2007-10-01 2007

We visited the little joss-house, very gaudily decorated, the main feature of the decorations being two enormous red silk umbrellas, exquisitely embroidered in gold and silks.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

The joss-house, where they held their religious services, was a chamber opening out upon an upper balcony.

Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas Various

He was surprised particularly at the number of Chinamen he met, for he didn't know that a block or two away was the centre of the Chinese population of New York, where the Celestials have their theatre, their hotels, their great stores, and their joss-house.

The Adventures of a Boy Reporter Harry Steele Morrison

An American girl laughed at the bearded figures in a San Francisco joss-house, but looked solemn when I referred to the saints in a Catholic cathedral in the same city.

As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous

Then they walked on again, but, before long, came to a large and excited crowd gathered round a poster on the outside wall of a joss-house or temple.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

He used to sit there in his great, luxurious, book-lined inner office, smiling and inscrutable as a plump joss-house idol while the fair ones burnt incense and made offering of shew-bread.

Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926

Blackie's little cubby-hole of an office is always blue with smoke, and cluttered with a thousand odds and ends -- photographs, souvenirs, boxing-gloves, a litter of pipes and tobacco, a wardrobe of dust-covered discarded coats and hats, and Blackie in the midst of it all, sunk in the depths of his swivel chair, and looking like an amiable brown gnome, or a cheerful little joss-house god come to life.

Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed Edna Ferber 1926

Upstairs above his store all was sepulchral silence when I mounted to investigate -- and I came quickly and quietly down again; for the door had opened on the gaudy Oriental splendor of a joss-house where dwelt only grinning wooden idols not counted as

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921