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Examples

  • And you see that those big roughs that he calls Melican men, but who were undoubtedly

    To The West George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Loyal Slush God Speaketh reader Sean Melican pointed me toward some cool pirate toys.

    John Joseph Adams » 2007 » February 2007

  • Loyal Slush God Speaketh reader Sean Melican pointed me toward some cool pirate toys.

    John Joseph Adams » Pirate Booty 2007

  • Sean Melican has said some very nice things about Polyphony 6 in Ideomancer.

    December 2nd, 2006 wheatland_press 2006

  • "No washee," said the Christian Chinaman; "you killed Melican man's Joss," meaning that the Jews crucified the Christ.

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

  • Suddenly through the threatening mass a man forced his way to the side of Dr.P. ----, exclaiming in English, "You Melican man?"

    Home Missions in Action Edith H. Allen

  • Oh, he told Bertram long ago he should go when we were married; that he had plenty much money, and was going back to China, and not be Melican man any longer.

    Miss Billy -- Married 1914

  • "You see, his Celestial Majesty came to me himself the other day, and said, after sundry and various preliminaries, that he should be ` velly much glad 'when the ` Little Missee' came to live with me, for then he could go back to China with a heart at rest, as he had money ` velly much plenty 'and didn't wish to be ` Melican man' any longer."

    Miss Billy's Decision 1912

  • Turned out that John had jollied 'em that the Melican soldier mans was big medicine an 'would make Judge Ming quit the midnight hike an' cut out scarin ''em blue.

    Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

  • Among the stumps and trunks of the fallen saplings, those that had been hacked 'China fashion' were no longer distinguishable from those that were cut ` 'Melican way.'

    Can Such Things Be 1893

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