Sentence example with the word 'candlenuts'

candlenuts

Last update: October 12, 2015

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_Popoi_ bowls and wooden platters of the roasted breadfruit were brought within shelter, and while the hissing rain put out the fires on the _paepae_ the candlenuts were lighted and all squatted for the evening meal.   [Please select]

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The leaves make screens and roofs of dwellings, baskets, and coverings, and in the pagan temples of Tahiti were the rosaries or prayer-counters, while on their stiff stalks the candlenuts are strung to give light for feasts or for feasting.   [Please select]

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All through the night the game raged beneath the light of the candlenuts, in a silence broken only by the hoarse breathing of the crouching brown men, the sandy-sounding rustle of the palm-fronds overhead, and cries of "Ante uppy."   [Please select]

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Only in the cocoanut-grove the candlenuts were lit as the stars peeped through the roof of the world.   [Please select]

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They bury them in a deep hole lined with cracked candlenuts and grass and cover all with earth.   [Please select]

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So Great Fern conceived him as a kind of cross between a man and a boar, with a tail like that of a shark, running through the forests with a bunch of lighted candlenuts and setting fire to the houses of the wicked.   [Please select]

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