Citations:faminee

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English citations of faminee

1901
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  • 1899, India's Women and China's Daughters, page 132:
    ... faminees, and all the other children too, is that they are simply believing, and as they day by day learn of Jesus, they are growing up as little Christians. Several (boys and girls) are going to be confirmed on March 7th. Will []
  • 1901, Irene H. Barnes, Between Life and Death
    But the most happy news about the faminees is that they are simply believing and are growing up as little Christians.
  • 1939, Harley Farnsworth MacNair, With the White Cross in China: The Journal of a Famine Relief Worker with a Preliminary Essay by Way of Introduction:
    ... faminees in Manchuria. After this leisurely country life, almost dread returning to the hurried routine of college classes. We have had dust with lack of baths here but no gulped breakfasts followed by chapel and eight o'clock []
  • 1975, J. Forbes Munro, Colonial Rule and the Kamba: Social Change in the Kenya Highlands, 1889-1939:
    ... 'faminees', totally dependent on the missions, attended the mission schools and, as they grew into adulthood, became the first Kamba teachers and evangelists. Girls who revolted against parental control and fled to the missions []