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indigo to turquoise, deep violet-blue to light green-blue.
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trudges, walks wearily, with his feet dragging the ground.
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causeway, a raised walk or road, across wet and marshy ground.
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suit. The short coat and the trousers make a suit of clothes.
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all of a piece, all of the same color, because taken from one piece of cloth.
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patching, putting a piece of cloth on to mend or repair a hole or rent in the clothing.
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extinguisher, a hollow cone for extinguishing, putting out, a candle or other flame.
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preposterously, unusually; absurdly; very, very.
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string of coolies, line of coolies one following the other.
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bales, packages of merchandise usually done up in canvas and corded or metal-hooped.
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agreeable picks up the word pleasing in the second line of the first paragraph.
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padi .Paddy is the more usual English form of this word, but padi is the correct Malay form.Padi is the Malay for rice , whether growing or cut, whether in the straw or in the husk. By extension, especially in the adjectival use, the word has come to mean rice in general.
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good-natured, inclined to please or to be pleased.
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frank, undisguised; open; outspoken; sincere; candid.
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drilled into you, taught repeatedly to you; told time and again to you; disciplined into you.
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oriental, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Koreans, and others of the Far East or the Orient. The Orient is the place where the sun rises, in the east.
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inscrutable, wholly mysterious, incapable of being penetrated or searched into or understood; incomprehensible; not given to expressing their emotions frankly or candidly. The Occidentals or foreigners from the West generally regard us Orientals of the East as a race of people who do not show our emotions on our faces and are therefore inscrutable or not easily understood by them.
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banyan tree, an East Indian moraceous tree, the branches of which send out numerous aërial roots that grow down to the soil and form props or additional trunks, often until a single tree covers so large an area that it will shelter thousands of men; so called by the British in allusion to the use of the space sheltered by the tree as a market-place by the native merchants, or banians.
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wayside shrine, a small place of worship by the side of the road.
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absurd, silly; weak-minded; foolish.
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old residents, foreigners who have lived in our country for many years. Sometimes they are called Old China Hands, although, strictly speaking, the term ought to apply to business men who have been here for a long time.
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with a tolerant shrug of the shoulders, as if you had said something that was absolutely wrong, but that they were making allowances for your being a newcomer to China, and were going through all this bother, really unnecessary bother, of getting you to see the truth of the whole matter.
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yoke, a frame fitted to a person’s shoulders and back for the carrying of heavy packs; also a pole used for the carrying of suspended baskets.
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staggering, tottering, swaying, unable to remain steady in walking and standing, because of the heavy loads they were carrying.
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wears on, continues on and on; drags on.
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