Hwai

“O! Hwai dungsyi” — You bad little thing — said the woman, teasing her baby granddaughter.

The Joy Luck Club Tan, Amy 1989

The civil offices were recruited from those who passed the three examinations: Hiang-she (provincial), held triennially in the autumn; Hwai-she (metropolitan) held at Peking, in the spring;

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Verbiest (Nan Hwai-jen); b. at Pitthem, 9 Oct., 1623; arrived at

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Wei, Ts'ai, Ts'ao, and T'êng, all of the imperial family name, or, as we say in English, "surname," and all lying between the Hwai and the Sz systems (T'êng was a "belonging state" of Lu).

Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887

Hwai to the state of Sung, which state was then disputing with Lu the possession of territory on the east bank of the Sz, whilst

Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887

The neck (dotted) of the Hwai embouchure no longer exists, and the Lake Hung-tseh now dissipates itself into lakelets and canals.

Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887

In the year 546, when some important reserves were made by Tsin at the Peace Conference, an express messenger was sent from Sung to the Ts'u capital to take the king's pleasure: this means an overland journey from the sources of the Hwai to the modern treaty port of Sha-shr above Hankow.

Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887

The Hwai savages, who appear in the Tribute of Yü, founder of the Hia dynasty, 2205 B.C., revolted

Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887

Hwai group of Eastern barbarians in possession of the Lower Hwai valley, and the various quite unknown tribes of Eastern barbarians occupying the marshy salt flats and shore accretions on the Kiang

Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887

The Wu fleets, by sailing up the Hwai, Sz, and I, could get up to Lu, and threaten

Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887