Wei Sentence Examples

Wolves are numerous in the mountains; the heron, ibis, wild goose and snipe in the valley of the Wei.

His first refuge was in Wei, a part of the present Ho-nan, the marquis of which received him kindly; but he was a weak man, ruled by his wife, a woman notorious for her accomplishments and wickedness.

In attempting to pass from Wei to another state, Confucius was set upon by a mob, which mistook him for an officer who had made himself hated by his oppressive deeds.

They were obliged, however, to retrace their way to Wei, and he wander- ings.

Poor little Wei, she'd always been the put upon Cinderella to a family of morally bankrupt ugly stepsisters.

The Wei basin being a loess region is unfit for rice, but for the same reason it produces fine crops of the kinds mentioned at a minimum expenditure of labour.

Kieou-he-yu (great dignitary of the state of Wei) sent a man to Khoung-tseu to know his news.

One tenet of Tao is that of 'wu wei', which literally means 'do nothing'.

The Wei dynasty, to which Tsaou-tsaou belonged, reigned in northern China, and at this day a considerable manufacture of glass is carried on at Po-shan-hien in Shantung, which it would seem has existed for a long period.

At Tung Kwan the river is joined by its only considerable affluent in China proper, the Wei (Wei-ho), which drains the large province of Shensi, and the combined volume of water continues its way at first east and then northeast across the great plain to the sea.

The most considerable are the Wei, which flows into the Gulf of Chih-li; the I-ho, which empties into a lake lying east of the Grand Canal; and the Ta-wen, which rises at the southern foot of the I-sham Mountains and terminates in the Grand Canal.

A third field is in the district of Wei Hien to the north; and a fourth in the neighbourhood of I-Hien in the southwest..

The city, which is a square, is prettily situated on ground rising from the river Wei, and includes within its limits the two district cities of Chang-gan and Hien-ning.

Situated in the basin of the Wei river, along which runs the great road which connects northern China with Central Asia, at a point where the valley opens out on the plains of China, Si-gan Fu occupies a strategical position of great importance, and repeatedly in the annals of the empire has history been made around and within its walls.

The valley of the Wei, situated between high tableland (the Ordos plateau) on the north and rugged mountains to the south, forms the great channel of communication between Eastern China and Central Asia.

For further notices of Silesius' life and work, see Hoffmann von Fallersleben in Wei - mar'sches Jahrbuch I.