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Citations:Tonkinese

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English citations of Tonkinese

  • 1921, Gilbert Frankau, The Seeds of Enchantment: Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Curious Discoveries of Doctor Cyprian Beamish, M. D., Glasgow; Commandant René de Gys, Annamite Army, and the Honourable Richard Assheton Smith, in the Golden Land of Indo-China, page 305:
    Our ancestors, who were valiant men, fought valiantly with the Tonkineses, killing thousands of them with these Old Things. And in the end, having conquered the Tonkineses, our ancestors made a treaty with them.
  • 1996, La Solidaridad:
    Everybody knows that the Chinese brought vice with them, but now the government would also import the vices of Tonkineses, Annamites, and perhaps, the polyandry of the Klings.