Meaning of Kuling | Babel Free

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“Kuling perched dramatically above a gorge of the Yangtze which could be seen far below, the view being rather like that from Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga or Murren in Switzerland, magnified several times.”

“My father put down his razor and straightened his face. "I've been meaning to tell you," he said. "We can't go to Peitaiho this summer, Jean. We'll be going to Kuling." I couldn't believe it. There he was with soap over one half of his face, saying Kuling, not Peitaiho, just as if he were saying cornflakes, not Grape-Nuts.”

“In early December I came down the Yangtze from boarding school in Kuling, above the river port of Kiukiang. Kuling had already fallen to the National Army. The British ship on which I sailed was sandbagged on the upper decks to protect us from any potshots that might be fired at us from the bank.”

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