Citations:Corea

English citations of Corea

• 1699, William Dampier, A New Voyage round the World, page 274

  I would take the ſame method if I was to go to diſcover the North Eaſt Paſſage. I would winter about Japan, Corea, or the North Eaſt part of China; and taking the Spring and Summer before me, I would make my firſt trial on the Coaſt of Tartary [...]

• 1788, unknown translator, Jean-Baptiste Grosier, A General Description of China, page 245

  The Mantchews, thus maſters of Corea, endeavoured to compel their new ſubjects to ſhave their heads, after their manner, and to adopt the Tartar dreſs.

• 1888 April 7, “'The Hermit Land.'”, in Chambers's Journal (Fifth Series)‎^[1], volume V, number 223, →OCLC, page 209:

  The Amnok, called also the Yalu, is a fine river which divides Corea from Manchuria.

• 1899, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, page 3:

  Here lies the peninsula of Corea, inhabited by a nation distinct from the Chinese in race and language, but from ancient times dependent both politically and intellectually on its powerful neighbour.

• 1922, Elizabeth F. Parker, Amber, page 12:

  In the latter country it is mostly black and known as Whitby jet, while in Corea and Japan it is red in color and opaque.