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  • Tell 'm that fella Ornfiri make' m kai-kai take along whale-boat.

    Chapter 16 2010

  • Well, we started them along their way, though they went in on the beach to kai-kai several miles back.

    Chapter 11 2010

  • 'But there is against starving 'em,' I said; 'you know yourself there ain't any kai-kai to speak of aboard of us, and there ain't a crumb on the Martha.'

    Chapter 18 2010

  • He catch plenty good fella kai-kai, {2} plenty good fella money.

    Chapter 2 2010

  • 'Don't let the kai-kai worry you, Captain Munster,' says she; 'if I can find grub for eighty-four mouths on the Martha, the two of you can do as much by your two vessels.

    Chapter 18 2010

  • Alaskan tobacco-pouches beaded with heraldic totem designs, a boomerang from Australia, divers ships in glass bottles, a cannibal kai-kai bowl from the Marquesas, and fragile cabinets from China and the Indies and inlaid with mother-of-pearl and precious woods.

    SAMUEL 2010

  • "My word, he finish close up, kai-kai altogether."

    Chapter 23 2010

  • "My word, bush fella kai-kai along that fella boy," Binu Charley remarked.

    Chapter 24 2010

  • The King of Rewa warned him that the mountain dwellers would surely kai-kai him -- kai-kai meaning "to eat" -- and that he, the King of Rewa, having become Lotu, would be put to the necessity of going to war with the mountain dwellers.

    THE WHALE TOOTH 2010

  • "We'd all been pretty well on native kai-kai, as it was," said Sparrowhawk.

    Chapter 18 2010

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