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  • Confucius; his precepts and admonitions, the sacred _hiao_ or filial submission, the tablets and ancestral piety, were a part of her blood; as was the infinitely fainter infusion of Buddhism; yet in her intellectual brooding it was to the Tao-teh-king that she returned.

    Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • Moun-Hiao: there is no person of that name; there is no street of that name; but the Chinese characters _Moun_ and _hiao_, placed together, form the character 'Kiao.'

    Some Chinese Ghosts Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • Moral (s) of the story: Don't wear heels, but practical footwear; don't be so hiao and put on makeup

    Balderdash 2009

  • Moral (s) of the story: Don't wear heels, but practical footwear; don't be so hiao and put on makeup

    Balderdash 2009

  • Moral (s) of the story: Don't wear heels, but practical footwear; don't be so hiao and put on makeup

    Balderdash 2009

  • Moral (s) of the story: Don't wear heels, but practical footwear; don't be so hiao and put on makeup

    Balderdash 2009

  • Moral (s) of the story: Don't wear heels, but practical footwear; don't be so hiao and put on makeup

    Balderdash 2009

  • I hiao until quite far that day hehe ... thank you for the wishes!!

    angeles' playground 2008

  • Haha .. the lomantic dinner veli ocipala .. not forgetting the super hiao hiao pose by the LB hehe ...

    angeles' playground 2008

  • I have found out about your birthday from eastcoastlife's and mistipurple's blog. mistipurple you hiao until where oredy? it's 1251am. hahah.

    angeles' playground 2008

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