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Examples
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Nor was Daughtry's judgment correct that the little Chinaman's haste was due to fear of the sinking ship.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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Lee Cheng, spokesman for the Asian American Legal Foundation, told me this month that racial preferences give Asians a "Chinaman's chance" of admission to the nation's best colleges and universities.
The New Chinese Exclusion Act Charles C. Johnson 2011
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Besides, there was an equally good bunk all the way across the width of the steerage from the Chinaman's.
CHAPTER X 2010
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"I was able to subdue that Chinaman's Sylphs when he tried to hide the slave I had purchased," Beltaire had said.
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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Of the more modern titles, I was pleased to see some personal favorites: Richard Stark's lean, cold novel of revenge, "The Hunter" (1962), and its younger cousin Thomas Perry's "The Butcher's Boy" (1982), Ross Thomas's urbane "Chinaman's Chance" (1978), and Charles McCarry's masterpiece about the Kennedy assassination, "The Tears of Autumn" (1974).
Review of "Thrillers: The 100 Must-Reads," by David Morrell and Hank Wagner 2010
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The Chinaman's girls thought they were coming to America to be given to husbands; the Mexican women were told that they would find easy jobs in the households of gold-rich families.
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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Another extravagant, but ultimately perfect breakfast involved my personal favorite of the many varied P&J oysters: those from Chinaman's Bayou.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Sadness and Seafood: New Orleans Recounts the Loss 2010
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Another extravagant, but ultimately perfect breakfast involved my personal favorite of the many varied P&J oysters: those from Chinaman's Bayou.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Sadness and Seafood: New Orleans Recounts the Loss 2010
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He couldn't be public school, surely ... not with those classic features that belong east of Vienna and would be as out of place in England as a Chinaman's.
Watershed 2010
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Chinese Americans know that the phrase "Chinaman's Chance in Hell" refers to the dangerous jobs they were forced to take placing explosives on mountainsides to clear the way for the transcontinental railroad.
Alex Storozynski: A Prince of Tolerance Offers Lessons for the Future of Race Relations 2009
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