| 单词 | tappa |
| 例句 | Offerings were here presented, green coco-nuts, pigs roasted whole, masses of bark tappas and mats. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z Fishing one day a week and cultivating a few yams and taros on another day would supply their food, and the women made tappa for their few garments out of the bark of trees. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z True, they were rigged out in a short loin-cloth not unlike tappa, but they carried neither spear nor shield. A Crime of the Under-seas 2011-05-17T02:00:16.540Z Casting my eyes upward, I beheld a long object, enveloped in native cloth and tappa, hanging slantingly across a beam, like a fantoccino, just before throwing a summerset on the slack-wire! Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia Was this really myself—this tall youth in the whale-tooth necklace and girded tappa marching with his brother chiefs in stately procession? Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas We asked if we could come in and see the tappa. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 However, in this case a large tappa curtain was let down in the centre; the King and his warriors slept on one side, and the other formed the apartment of Mrs. Strong and myself. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z For example: the ridge-pole of Marheyo’s house bends under the weight of many a huge packet of tappa; his long couch is laid with mats placed one upon the other seven deep. Typee His body and arms were those of a giant, while the lower limbs tapered away to nothing, half shrouded in blue tappa, and over all he wore a flowing, yellow shirt. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia I stretched myself out upon the mats, again shivering with ague, and Te-bari covered me over with a thick tappa cloth. The Call Of The South 1908 Only once had he seen her; but since then he had sent over many canoes laden with presents, such as hogs and turtle, and great bunches of plantains, and fine tappa cloth for her acceptance. Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 She lay down at the bottom with a tappa cloth covering her from the sun. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z These marks produce the corduroy sort of stripes descernible in the tappa in its finished state. Typee "Good!" said the chief, as he nonchalantly rolled himself a cigarette in a piece of dried banana leaf which he took from his tappa waist cloth. John Frewen, South Sea Whaler 1904 Our cargo consisted of Barton’s stock of goods for trading with the islanders, and a quantity of stained tappa, fine mats, shark’s teeth, etcetera, which Rokóa had laid in for purposes of his own. The Island Home I bought some tappa and mallets, however, with some of the markers used in colouring the cloth, and a few gourds and calabashes, forming part of the household furniture. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months Meanwhile, the matron was still enveloping Path in her interminable tappas. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Among these, the most important was the manufacture of the native cloth—“tappa”—so well known, under various modifications, throughout the whole Polynesian Archipelago. Typee It was a plaited turban of red tappa, radiated by the pointed and polished white bones of the Ray-fish. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Their only clothing consisted of the maro, a strip of tappa, or native cloth, tied round the loins. The Island Home From this tree, he pointed out, the South Sea Islander manufactured the tappa cloth, from that the poeepooee, from yonder the arva. Angel Island He referred the anxious world to a witness, still alive and hearty,—his contemporary tailor; the varlet who cut out his tappa doublets, and rejoiced his soul with good fits. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II After a few moments Kolory brings forth his doll again, and, while arraying it very carefully in the tappa and red cloth, alternately fondles and chides it. Typee It was enveloped in a dark robe of tappa, so drawn and plaited about the limbs; and with one hand, so wimpled about the face, as only to expose a solitary eye. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Meantime Arthur hastened over to the islet, and released our companions from the ligatures of tappa which confined their limbs. The Island Home A fine piece of tappa from the Solomons, of barbaric design in black and orange, made the centre of an arrangement of South Sea Island and aboriginal weapons. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life A circumstance, which accounted for the fact, that many of the class above alluded to, were considered capital judges of tappa and tailoring. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II The body, neatly wrapped in new white tappa, was laid out in an open shed of cocoa-nut boughs, upon a bier constructed of elastic bamboos ingeniously twisted together. Typee Alas! thought she, my buttons, my nails, my tappa, my dollars, my beads, and my boxes! Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Garments too, are sometimes made from it, though for that purpose tappa is preferred. The Island Home Spread upon this was a single, fine mat, with a roll of dried ferns for a pillow, and a strip of white tappa for a sheet. Omoo Dispatched round the island with divers bits of tappa, hieroglyphically stamped, he merely deposited one upon each altar; superadding a stone, to keep the missive in its place; and so went his rounds. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II These marks produce the corduroy sort of stripes discernible in the tappa in its finished state. Typee The female dress consisted of the pau, a garment formed of a piece of tappa, several yards in length and one in width, wrapped round the waist, and reaching like a petticoat, to the knees. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains Upon close inspection, the doctor discovered it to be a loving old couple, locked in each other's arms, and rolled together in a tappa mantle. Omoo My long friend engaged his favourites, the two younger girls, at the game of "Now," or hunting a stone under three piles of tappa. Omoo It was an imposing array of sounds; a circulation of ciphers; a marshaling of tappas; a getting together of grimaces and furbelows; a masquerade of vapidities. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Among these the most important was the manufacture of the native cloth,—'tappa',—so well known, under various modifications, throughout the whole Polynesian Archipelago. Typee Many heavens were in her sunny eyes; and the outline of that arm of hers, peeping forth from a capricious tappa robe, was the very curve of beauty. Omoo It was a cloak, or mantle, of yellow tappa, precisely similar to the "poncho" worn by the South-American Spaniards. Omoo Whereupon, their leader tore a long strip from his girdle of white tappa, and handed it to one of the French officers, who, after explaining what was to be done, gave it to Jermin. Omoo But the short kilts of dyed tappa, the tasselled maroes, and other articles formerly worn, are, at the present day, prohibited by law as indecorous. Omoo The body, neatly wrapped in a new white tappa, was laid out in an open shed of cocoanut boughs, upon a bier constructed of elastic bamboos ingeniously twisted together. Typee It seemed to have been used as a "tappa herree," or house for making the native cloth. Omoo As previously remarked, the manufacture of tappa is nearly obsolete in many parts of the island. Omoo Tonoi obtained sufficient coarse brown tappa to make a short mantle of this description; and in five minutes the doctor was equipped. Omoo It was the planters' retreat; and in their absence, several girls were keeping house, assisted by an old native, who, wrapped up in tappa, lay in the corner, smoking. Omoo When the operation last described has been concluded, the new-made tappa is spread out on the grass to bleach and dry, and soon becomes of a dazzling whiteness. Typee To my surprise, the manufacture of tappa was going on in several buildings. Omoo Everybody, too, ride about in coaches, bigger than hers; and wear fine tappa every day. Omoo An hour or two before midnight, Rartoo entered the house, and, throwing robes of tappa over us, bade us follow at a distance behind him; and, until out of the village, hood our faces. Omoo Professors in large practice lived in spacious houses, divided by screens of tappa into numerous little apartments, where subjects were waited upon in private. Omoo After a few moments Kolory brings forth his doll again, and while arraying it very carefully in the tappa and red cloth, alternately fondles and chides it. Typee They were very simple; the half of a green melon, about one third full of cocoa-nut oil, and a wick of twisted tappa floating on the surface. Omoo But this I would not consent to; and so, as something to remember her by, she presented me with a roll of fine matting, and another of tappa. Omoo They were arrayed in short tunics of white tappa; with garlands of flowers on their heads. Omoo We withdrew; making a profound inclination as we disappeared behind the tappa arras. Omoo For example, the ridge-pole of Marheyo's house bends under the weight of many a huge packet of tappa; his long couch is laid with mats placed one upon the other seven deep. Typee |
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