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Ts'in _s'en va t'en guerre_ seriously in the year 364, and began her slashing career by cutting off 60,000 "Tsin" heads; (the legitimate Tsin sacrifices had been cut off in 376, so this "Tsin" must mean "Ngwei," or that part of old Tsin which was coterminous with Ts'in); in 331, in a battle with Ngwei, 80,000 more heads were taken off.
Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887
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The terms "Tsin" and "Han" refer to Chinese dynasties of those names, whose sway covered the period between 255 B.C. and A.D.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Accordingly we hear the original name Tsin, or "the three
Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887
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257 "Tsin" (presumably Han or Ngwei) lost 6,000 killed and 20,000 drowned; in 256 Han lost 40,000 heads, and in 247 her last 30,000, whilst also in 256 Chao her last 90,000.
Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887
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I think Tsin, the tiny Chinese man, might be the closest I get.
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Tsoong-Kia Tsin came in on good time and is fully at his work.
Letter to Young John Allen,February 6, 1892 Warren Akin 2007
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I think I can get the $115 returned to you -- money used in sending Tsoong Kia Tsin out.
Letter to Young John Allen,February 6, 1892 Warren Akin 2007
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They were among those tortured and beheaded in 1861 in Tsin-gai.
On Today's Calendar 2006
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It was in the year Keah-yin,16 the twelfth year of the period E-he of the (Eastern) Tsin dynasty, the year-star being in Virgo-Libra, in the summer, at the close of the period of retreat, that I met the devotee Fa-hien.
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In the “Memoirs of Eminent Monks” it is said that our author started in the third year of the period Lung-gan of the eastern Tsin, which was A.D.
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