Word: palanquins
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...original-like a marbles match, played by dignified giants. When it was over, muttering clipped but vociferous explanations of successful rolls, bundling their complicated silk togas about small nervous bodies, the courtiers of Confucius scurrying like ungraceful peacocks, would go back through green or garden to palace or to palanquin...