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The inhabitants are supplied with water by means of an aqueduct, fed by the little river, or rill of Wai Elghored, two miles distant south. The climate hereabouts is extremely salubrious, the rocky sandy site of the city being removed from all marshes or low lands, which produce pestiferous miasma or fever-exhaling vegetation.
Know the wai to my own door, at laste; and have a raight to goo there. And he shut me out without so much as offering me a drink of cider.
Holy water was called ka wai kapu a Kane, and from the baptizing of the new-born child to the sprinkling of the dying its sacred uses were many. To-day the older people use these pagan ablutions to alleviate pain and cure maladies. The old Greeks used salt water for the same purposes, and had holy-water fonts at the temple gates, as do the Catholic churches to-day.
Like with most strangers, in both of these brief encounters with the linen officiator and the toilet goer he had respectively greeted and smiled at each of these individuals at the moments of seeing them with a sawadee khrap and a gracious nod of the head in place of the wai.
During the proceedings of the trial of these two prisoners, the Attorney General had declared his intention not to call the former owners of the child, Wai Alan, the woman who beat the child, or Pao Chee Wan, her husband. The Chief Justice now said: "I now direct you, Mr. Attorney General, to prosecute these two people, Pao Chee Wan and Wai Alan."
"Are you going to Vientiane?" "Yes." "To do what?" "Partying there. You?" "Sure, partying with you." "Might as well have an early one then." The stranger raised a beer up to Nawin who put it in his hands and gave the prayerful gesture of the "wai" even though it was upside down. "How long can you hang that way?" "Don't know," said Nawin. "Don't try drinking it that way.
'Wult have thee own wai, I reckon, said Betty, being cross with sleepiness, for she had washed up everything; 'slape in hog-pound, if thee laikes, Jan. Then I saw, as sure as ever I was standing there in the shadow of the stable, I saw a short wide figure glide across the foot of the courtyard, between me and the six-barred gate.
In the market-places, and near the great gates of the city, where Peking carts and camels from beyond the passes k'ou wai, to use the correct vernacular jostle one another, the dust has become damnable beyond words, and there can be no health possibly in us.
Wai Chiao Pu conference Wakamatsu, Japanese government foundry at Wang Yi-tang War memorandums "White Wolfs," insurrection of Wilson, President Wu, C.C., Dr. Wu Chang-ching, Gen. Wu Ting-fang, Dr.
The spring of Arva Wai—Remarkable monumental remains—Some ideas with regard to the history of the pi-pis found in the valley. Almost every country has its medicinal springs famed for their healing virtues. The Cheltenham of Typee is embosomed in the deepest solitude, and but seldom receives a visitor.
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