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As popular as when Belly the First was keng and his members met in the Diet of Man.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Now, most Singaporeans, or at least, the less-inclined to chao keng, non-clerical, guys, are used to such confined living spaces with other people.
jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2006
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Bao ba ditulo tse amoeng ke kolwo kapa mathat ase keng aqojoa.
SPEECH BY MR S MSHUDULU, ANC MP DURING THE PROPERTY RATES BILL DEBATE 2004
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Ma K'uei, duke of Chih Kuo, by inheritance general of the third rank with the prefix of majesty afar; Hou Hsiao-keng, an hereditary viscount of the first degree, grandson of the duke of Hsiu Kuo, Hou Hsiao-ming by name; while the death of the consort of the duke of Shan Kuo had obliged his grandson Shih Kuang-chu to go into mourning so that he could not be present.
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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Page day before keng-yin; but the year-period, year, and month present difficulties. 7
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The day keng-tzu could not have come in the fourth month after New Year's day of that year; but it could have come in the seventh month after New Year's day, which Chia Yi called the "fourth" month.
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Accidents are marvellously rare, considering the thousands of large, heavy, handsome keng boats that ply continually between the gulf and the capital, now lost in a sudden bend of the stream, now emerging from behind a screen of mangroves, and in their swift descent threatening quick destruction to the small and fragile market-boats, freighted with fish and poultry, fruit and vegetables.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874
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Diverse as are the styles and uses of these boats, the most convenient, and therefore the most common, are the Rua-keng and the Rua-pêt.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874
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P'an-keng, of the house of Shang, moves his capital five times, 81
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Another king of this house, by name P'an-keng, has no claim to distinction other than that of having moved his capital five times.
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