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Examples
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He was chiney, and he wasn't mean like Pia Ahn. Nyssa didn't see what would be so wrong about marrying Joey, or having him for a brother.
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She couldn't bear it if her baby brother was chiney.
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Reese had tricked her into admitting she would marry a chiney.
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She was beginning to understand how Reese had come to dislike chiney.
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Whatever was wrong with Joey and the other chiney was most likely obvious to everyone but Nyssa.
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If the council was harassing the family, and was mostly made up of chiney people, it wasn't surprising that Reese had transferred her dislike of the Council to all chiney people.
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The other Council members stood up to help, and that's when Nyssa noticed that most of them were chiney, like Pia Ahn. When did that happen?
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A chiney person might be very nice, but Reese had made it clear that it would be a humiliation to have one in her own family.
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'I thought of that, ma'am,' replies Bill, 'so I have written S for chiney on the one, and G for jam on the other.'
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey
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Many a time our house was full of Northern soldiers, an they never so much as broke a piece of my mudders chiney.
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