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Familiar Quotations

Hong

And if you screw up just this much, you'll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong!–Top Gun

You screw up just this much, you'll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong!–Top Gun

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.–Jim Rohn

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.–Vita Sackville-West

Use in Literature

Hong

But something delayed the shipping in Hong Kong. When it arrived the market was swamped.–Gertrude Atherton in The Sisters-In-Law.

He saw gaol in Signapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, Shanghai, Canton, and other places.–General Booth in In Darkest England and The Way Out.

The servants of the East India Company were content to adapt themselves to this view, and they might have carried on relations with the Hong merchants for an indefinite period, and without any more serious collision than occasional interruptions.–Demetrius Charles Boulger in China.

But, to the surprise of all, when we had arrived off the beautiful island of Hong Kong, to which we approached closely, we ‘raised’ a grand sperm whale.–Frank T. Bullen in The Cruise of the Cachalot.

I remember once making a round voyage from Cardiff to Hong Kong and the Philippines, back to London, in ten months, and during the whole of that time we did not have a downright gale.–Frank T. Bullen in The Cruise of the Cachalot.

Let any man go down the wharf at Hong Kong after sunset, and hail a sampan from the hundreds there that are waiting to be hired.–Frank T. Bullen in The Cruise of the Cachalot.

We took Hong Kong, Chusan, Ningpo, Canton, and returned to take Amoy.–Henry J. Coke in Tracks of a Rolling Stone.

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Hong 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Hong 2
• Hong – "Calcutta" 6
• Hong – "English" 7
• Nonfiction Usage 8
• Script Usage 8
• Journalism Usage 9
• Encyclopedic Usage 296
• Lexicographic Usage 398
• Index 494