hong


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hong

(hɒŋ)
n
1. (Commerce) (in China) a factory, warehouse, etc
2. (Commerce) (formerly, in Canton) a foreign commercial establishment
[C18: from Chinese (Cantonese dialect)]
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Uncle Mac has a ship just in from Hong Kong, and I thought you would like to go and see it."
Odd smells saluted her nose, and odd sights met her eyes, but Rose liked it all, and played she was really landing in Hong Kong when they glided up to the steps in the shadow of the tall "Rajah." Boxes and bales were rising out of the hold and being carried into the warehouse by stout porters, who tugged and bawled and clattered about with small trucks, or worked cranes with iron claws that came down and clutched heavy weights, whisking them aloft to where wide doors like mouths swallowed them up.
She was just trying to impress upon her mind that Amoy was two hundred and eighty miles from Hong Kong, when Fun came scuffling back, bearing what she thought was a small sword, till he unfurled an immense fan, and presented it with a string of Chinese compliments, the meaning of which would have amused her even more than the sound, if she could have understood it.
From London to Suez via Mont Cenis and Brindisi, by rail and steamboats ..............................................................................7 " From Suez to Bombay, by steamer .......................13 " From Bombay to Calcutta, by rail ...............................3 " From Calcutta to Hong Kong, by steamer .................3 " From Hong Kong to Yokohama (Japan), by steamer..........6 " From Yokohama to San Francisco, by steamer ............22 " From San Francisco to New York, by rail ................7 " From New York to London, by steamer and rail............9 "
In the middle sixties she had beaten by a day and a half the steam mail-boat from Hong Kong to Singapore.
Bagnet quite fresh and collected--as she would be if her next point, with no new equipage and outfit, were the Cape of Good Hope, the Island of Ascension, Hong Kong, or any other military station.
"Yep Hong Lee--they call him 'Big Jim,' and Ah Pock, and Ah Whang, and--then there's Shima, the Japanese potato king.
And presently he mentioned that he had written for some jewel lery, real good jewellery--had written to Hong Kong for it.
'Our current laws have provided sufficient foundations for us to offer assistance to Hong Kong's people when necessary,' Tsai said, after attending an international forum on police cooperation in Taipei.
I got out of Hong Kong last Friday just in the nick of time.
HONG Kong, generally known as the 'Pearl of the Orient' is currently embroiled in protests which have lasted over two months.