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  • Chiya Saito is from the city of Yokosuka, about an hour's drive south of Tokyo.

    Japanese Students in US Look Home with Sorrow, Hope 2011

  • He explained things in terms of slovenly discipline and debauchery, he taught them yes and no in the border patois, and the men he had picked were southern in the first place, with the country Hoishi dialect, which was as far toward the outside westward as Taizu's was east and, at its thickest, obscure to another Chiya, let alone a foreigner—Speak country, he had told them, thick as you can.

    2005 Cherryh, C. J. 2005

  • Delport said it was believed Chiya was shot at about 8pm on Sunday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • The Zulu and Chiya were contesting the ownership of a piece of land in the area.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Director Bala Naidoo said the local chief in the Ingwagawane ward near Creighton in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands called a meeting between the Chiya and Zulu clans in the area on Saturday afternoon.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • S'gubudu Chiya, was shot four times in his home on Sunday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • The previous evening, comrade Chiya, Chairperson of the ANC's Wema hostel branch was assassinated in his room at the hostel.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • Rav Chiya, the son of Adda, was tutor to the children of Resh Lakish, and once absented himself from his duties for three days.

    Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

  • Once Abbahu's lecture was besieged by a great crowd, but the audience of his colleague Chiya was scanty.

    Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891

  • "Thy teaching," said Abbahu to Chiya, "is a rare jewel, of which only an expert can judge; mine is tinsel, which attracts every ignorant eye."

    Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891

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