joss-sticks

She laughs at our joss-sticks, and paper prayers, and family gods, as I have been well told --

THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010

Better start burning joss-sticks and opening windows.

Awards ceremony Rachel 2005

She's in a vintage clothing store and her nose is twitching: "The air of the place was a marvelous melange of the smell of old but clean clothes, cleaning-fluid, phantom scents, patchouli potpourri, joss-sticks permanently burning, and the occasional cigarette surreptitiously smoked by the girl at the till."

A tin nose 2005

Better start burning joss-sticks and opening windows.

Archive 2005-11-01 Rachel 2005

Our joss-sticks fumed on the still air, monks waved censers, and blasts of dissonant music woke the semi-subterranean echoes.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

Winifred burnt joss-sticks when she remembered what a distinguished atmosphere they produced.

The White Monkey 2004

There is a recess outside each shop, and at dusk the joss-sticks burning in these fill the city with the fragrance of incense.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

“Worship” consists in many prostrations, in the offering of many joss-sticks, and in burning large squares of gilded paper, this being supposed to be the only way in which gold can reach either gods or ancestors.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

There are all the usual joss arrangements, and time is measured by the burning of joss-sticks.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

But while they kept up this conversation, the first watch drew near, and She Yüeh at once lowered the mosquito-curtain, removed the lamp, burnt the joss-sticks, and waited upon Pao-yü until he got into bed.

Hung Lou Meng 2003