In the Shadow of Lantern Street (Classic Reprint)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Woodworth, Herbert G.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from In the Shadow of Lantern Street Four o´clock in the afternoon; through the great Cheng-Yang-Men gate the traffic, congested from both directions, poured into the city and out of it. With like impatience at the delay, with like weird shouts and imprecations, the ´rickshaws from the city struggled to get away and all the crowd from without pushed and strove to get within the sheltering walls of Peking. Along the roadway, beneath the towering gate with its huge overhanging parapets that guarded the entrance, soldierly policemen kept the lines in order, the white bands of their caps standing out clearly from the mass of bare heads. Each officer wore a sword at his belt and a short rifle slung from a shoulder-strap across his back. These were for serious offenders, but a long black stick lent force to every command, and now and then might be heard its brutal thwack as it struck some poor offending coolie across the shoulders when he ducked to save his head. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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