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...book, John Clark, author of the highly regarded "Beaches of Hawaii" series, gives us the many captivating stories behind the hundreds of Hawaii place names associated with the ocean—the names of shores, beaches, and other sites where people fish, swim, dive, surf, and paddle. Significant features and landmarks on or near shores, such as fishponds, monuments, shrines, ree...

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...In 1966 the University of Hawaii Press published the first edition of Place Names of Hawaii. Written by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert, it contained 1,125 entries, all of which were place names in the Hawaiian language. In 1974 the press published the second edition by Pukui, Elbert, and Esth...

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...In this book the authors endeavor to provide the people of the State of Hawaii with a glossary of important place names in the State, including names of valleys, streams, mountains, land sections, surfing areas, towns, villages, and Honolulu streets and buildings. The first edition of Place Names of Hawaii contained only 1,125 entries. ...

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...ry. 1 -- Hawaiian words used in the Glossary. 3 -- Abbreviations used in the Glossary. 4 -- Glossary. 5 -- Appendix. 235 -- Previous studies of place names. 235 -- Sources consulted. 237 -- Sound changes and the need for salvage. 238 -- New names. 241 -- Structural analysis. 243 -- Semantic analysis. 253 -- Words of non-Hawaiian origin and names of streets and buildings. 2...

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...osetta Stone, in Hieroglyphics and Greek; with Translations, and an explanation of the hieroglyphical character; and followed by an appendix of kings names....

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...” While, for those who preferred a more forcible word, He had different names from these: His intimate friends called him “Candle ends,” And...

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...ians, who was called the friend of God, and knew the mind of the Almighty, names this element the first in the creation: this is the ele ment upon wh... ...eral fish that appeared and came when they were called by their particular names. And St. James tells us, that all things in the sea have been tamed b... ...s hand, Than which none’s greater in the world’s command; Nay more they’ve names, and, when they called are, Do to their several owner’s call repair. ... ... so in other nations, I think those in England differ nothing but in their names. Aldrovandus says, they be of a Trout kind; and Gesner says, that in ... ...s known, the fa mous river Nilus does not only breed fishes that yet want names, but, by the overflowing of that river, and the help of the sun’s hea...

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.... Branches of your family held manors over all this part of England; their names appear in the Pipe Rolls in the time of King Stephen. In the reign of... ... you come to see me or my mother?’ This embodiment of a d’Urberville and a namesake differed even more from what Tess had expected than the house and ... ...‘Yes.’ ‘Stokes?’ ‘No; d’Urbervilles.’ ‘Ay, ay; I mean d’Urbervilles.’ ‘Our names are worn away to Durbeyfield; but we have several proofs that we are d... ... into one typical form. He called her Artemis, Demeter, and other fanciful names half teasingly, which she did not like because she did not understand... ...as now so familiar with the spot that he knew the individual cows by their names when, a long distance off, he saw them dotted about the meads. It was...

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...ust what you never ought to be; and so, it should direct your way to Good Behavior, every day. The children of whose faults I tell are known by other names, as well, so see that you aren't in this group of Naughty Ones. Don't be a Goop! (The author's introduction)...

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...ions of the race, of universal acceptance through- out the whole group, followed by the briefer folk-tales of more local character. A few of similar names occur in the collection, indicating, in some cases, different versions of the same story, a number of the more popular legends having several versions. The closing part of this volume, to embrace the series of Lahaina...

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...t -- 124 -- Kuapakaa Chants the Winds of Hawaii—The King, Angered, Continues on—Winds of Kauai, Niihau and Kaula; Of Maui, Molokai, Halawa—Chants the Names of His Master, Uncle and Men—Pakaa Orders the Winds of Laamaomao Released -- 92 -- The Canoe Race in Kau—Kuapakaa Offers to Land Four Times Before His Opponents' First, and Wins—The King Sends for the Boy and Pleads for...

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...s of the ocean, three rays, three shears,’ ‘Glorious Mind, bright daemon’ ‘Amor, Amor, the clouds in the sky’s tower’ A Memory The Word Too Many Names ‘The heavy rain of the south falls over Isla Negra’ ‘My love, at the shutting of this door of night’ Night Sea Ode to Clothes ‘Misfortunes of the month of January’ I Explain a Few Things Discoverers of Chile Oh ...

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...kahoe ia Sterling laua o Summers, ma loko o ka laua palapala i hana ai e waiho ala ma ka Halehoikeike o Pihopa. Eia kekahi, ma loko o na puke o Place Names of Hawaii a me Sites of Oahu, ua loaa na pauku e wehewehe pokole ana i ka manao nui o ka moolelo. Ike ia no hoi kekahi mana o nei moolelo i loko o ka puke Na Wahi Pana O Koolaupoko. O ke kumu i loaa mai ai ka mana moole...

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...only are now, and with more frames round them—one great flat one, with odd names painted on it, and another brass one, nearly upright, going half-way ... ...ll in pale green, with pink and yel- low outlines on it, and quantities of names. Lucy had had to learn some of these names for her geography, and she... ...ig globe, that Uncle Joe said I might touch,” said Lucy. “Here are all the names just like my lesson-book at home: Europe, Africa, and America.” “Why,... ...oes the child think I sailed on that very globe there?” “I know one learns names,” said Lucy; “but is it real?” “Real! Why, Missie, don’t you see it’s... ... the whole country, and there Lucy found the river, and the roads, and the names of the villages near, as she had seen or heard of them; and she began... ...ck in the corner that Uncle Joe calls his alpenstock. I’ll go and read the names upon it. They are the names of all the mountains where he has used it...

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...t a fence, is much attached to hunting. Some of those who have borne great names as Nimrods in our hunting annals would as life have led a forlorn-hop... ...ere were five or six men rode the brook,” continues our phi- losopher, who names the four or five, not mentioning the unfortunate who had spoken last ... ...or gentlemen whose parks are the glory of our English landscape, and whose names are to be found in the pages of our county records; or if not that, h...

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...ouldn’t call the boat which, under Providence, was the means o’ savin’ ye, names. In the first place, it’ s blame irreli- gious. In the second, it’ s ... ... he’ s clear dis- tracted in his upper works. He ain’t responsible fer the names he’ s give me, nor fer his other statements—nor fer jumpin’ overboard... ...ke a man yet ef you go on this way .” “He oughtn’t begin by calling people names.” “Jest an’ right-right an’ jest,” said Troop, with the ghost of a dr... ...at’ s no way ,” Tom Platt burst in. “Quiet! He’ s larnin’, an’ has not the names good yet. Go on, Harve.” “Oh, it’s the reef-pennant. I’d hook the tac... ...sional agony . “Lower the throat and peak halyards,” Harvey went on. Those names stuck in his head. “Lay your hand on thim,” said Long Jack. Harvey ob... ...azy Kid,” “the Gilt-edged Baby ,” “the Suckin’ V anderpoop,” and other pet names; and with his sea-booted feet cocked up on the table would even inven... ...s. Is it a town show , then?” “The summer convention is. They read out the names of the fellows drowned or gone astray since last time, and they make ... ... price that must be paid for the yearly harvest. They would hear later the names of their lost dead one hundred and sev- enteen of them. (The widows s...

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...r two in Rob Roy, would give me very much the same effect. These are great names and (what is more to the purpose) strong, healthy, high-strung, and g... ... influence in life. The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are per- fectly irrational and even shockin... ...men the world ever produced. Most men of high destinies have high-sounding names. Pym and Habakkuk may do pretty well, but they must not think to cope... ...nt than that of the English Admirals. Drake and Rooke and Hawke are picked names for men of execution. Frobisher, Rodney, Boscawen, Foul- Weather, Jac... ...d conduct in the field. It is impos- sible to judge of Blake or Nelson, no names current among men being worthy of such heroes. But still it is odd en... ...g as the house should last. But it is the spirit of the men, and not their names, that I wish to speak about in this paper. That spirit is truly En- g...

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...nt in a gentle man of his time of life, but that he will bow up, and call names, and make reflections whenever they meet. Then the plain question is,... ...aid Quilp, wilfully misunderstanding her, of course, ‘you mustn’t call her names. She’s married now, you know. And though she did beguile the time and... ...tinuing to write with a businesslike air. ‘I enter in this little book the names of the streets that I can’t go down while the shops are open. This di... ...s true in every word, and where those distant coun tries with the curious names might be. As she looked back upon the place they had left, one part o... ...he village tradesman’s; then the lawyer’s and the parson’s, at whose dread names the beer shop trembled; the church then peeped out modestly from a Th... ...pare, and yellow like themselves; the rugged font where children had their names, the homely altar where they knelt in after life, the plain black tre... ... at them atten tively. ‘The dog whose name’s called, eats. The dogs whose names an’t called, keep quiet. Carlo!’ The lucky individual whose name was ... ...less its heart) and a child of the devil (which is calling its dead father names); if I was to see this, and see little Jacob looking grievous likewis... ...rried him so much, and were absolutely quiet; eating no apples, cutting no names, inflicting no pinches, and making no grimaces, for full two minutes ...

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...31 Wordsworth And never learnt a prayer, nor told a bead. But knew the names of birds, and mocked their notes, And whistled, as he were a bird h... ...ny vile reflections cast: “A little idle sauntering thing!” With other names, an endless string. But now that time is gone and past. And Betty...

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... And Peter Turph, and Henry Pimpernell, 248 And twentie more such names and men as these, 249 Which neuer were, nor no man euer saw. 25...

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... of the poorer sort) whom she saw playing on the grass; she asked them their names and gave them sixpence and, when they were pretty, kissed them. Ral... ...’t be a clergyman; I haven’t got convictions. And then I can’t pronounce the names right in the Bible. They’re very difficult, in the Old Testament par... ...palaces; she looked at the pictures and statues that had hitherto been great names to her, and exchanged for a knowledge which was sometimes a limitat... ...stillness of the past, so vivid yet, though it is nothing but a void full of names, seems to throw a solemn spell upon them. The blinds were partly cl... ... the more reason you should improve on it. There are only a dozen Amer ican names. Do you marry him out of charity?” “It was my duty to tell you, Aun... ...ng lady, of any sort, that he had not noted. Only he called her qualities by names of his own—some of which indeed were happy enough. “No, she’s uniqu...

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...worthy and able con- stable, Mr. J. A. Jaffers. Pretty straight story, eh? Names and everything.” “Lord!” said Mr. Marvel, looking nervously about him...

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...When Polynesian people came to Hawaii, hundreds of years ago, they brought legends. We know this because the same stories and similar hero names are found in other Polynesian groups. Other legends grew about historical events in our islands, about real people and places. Some are very old while others have grown in recent times. As all these stories were told...