Lexicographical Neighbors of Cangues
Literary usage of Cangues
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social life of the Chinese: With Some Account of Their Religious by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"Wearing cangues and Cuff's.—Dressing in red Coats.—Carrying a Stick of lighted
Incense.— Ceremony before the Great King. * Miscellaneous Superstitions to ..."
2. The Story of China: With Description of the Events Relating to the Present by Neville Edwards (1900)
"cangues are the prototype of the old English village stocks. Prisoners wearing
these terrible wooden collars may be seen in almost any Chinese city. ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1895)
"Occasionally, in the case of heavy cangues, a prisoner in his restless ...
and a large majority of prisoners are made to wear wooden collars or cangues ..."
4. A Yankee on the Yangtze: Being a Narrative of a Journey from Shanghai by William Edgar Geil (1904)
"In one room were three prisoners wearily standing in heavy cangues, with their
heads through hinged boards. Chains about their necks came between the wood ..."
5. Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border by Archibald John Little (1901)
"The two wretched frowsy beggar heads projecting from the wide surface of the
cangues, deathly pale and absolutely motionless, looked as though they had long ..."
6. China: A History of the Laws, Manners, and Customs of the People by John Henry Gray (1878)
"On the same day, and in the same city, I saw two men wearing cangues, and bound to a
... From the inscription on their cangues I learned that they had been ..."
7. Notes and Queries on China and Japan (1867)
"... and in it there are 120 different implements, as iron beams, iron pillars,
iron cangues, and iron cords. He also- beheld a goodly number of women from ..."
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