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tong

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tong
(formerly) a Chinese secret society or association, esp one popularly assumed to engage in criminal activities


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KERGUELEN, MARK BOAT reports last call from Cymena freighter(Gayer Tong Huk & Co.
But, he had not yet spoken to her on the subject; the assassination at the deserted chateau far away beyond the heaving water and the long, tong, dusty roads--the solid stone chateau which had itself become the mere mist of a dream--had been done a year, and he had never yet, by so much as a single spoken word, disclosed to her the state of his heart.
Every one knows what a multitude of things --beds, sauce-pans, knives and forks, shovels and tongs, napkins, nut-crackers, and what not, are indispensable to the business of housekeeping.
 
 
 
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