Use "cathay" in a sentence

1. History lesson: How many of us are aware that, had the Ottoman Turks not overrun that city, the last bastion of the Eastern Roman Empire, in 1453, thus cutting off overland trade routes to Cathay and other places east

2. “I never heard of Cathay

3. “It is a large island east of Cathay?”

4. “Isn’t the Khan the ruler of Cathay?”

5. They gasped at that and asked if it was larger than Cathay

6. He asked how my grandfather had come to be born in Cathay

7. I know the old Mongols dreamt of reconquering the Hanjen, Cathay you call it, but they are all long gone and our attention is more inclined to be at home

8. Cathay, and all the lands that lie between;

9. How she received the sceptre of Cathay,

10. When Marco Polo came at last to Cathay, seven hundred years ago, did he not feel -- and did his heart not falter as he realized -- that this great and splendid capital of an empire had had its being

11. Would Samarkand or Cathay or Cipango have suffered the same fate if visited? As soon as I had cleared the outskirts, the broken-metal-and-glass outer-ring, and moved through Mapleton I found a pleasant place to stop on the Maple River not far from Alice—what a wonderful name for a town, Alice