Max burst into a fit of laughter, when following the direction of his eye, we looked up, and espied an enormous parrot perched upon a purau branch, directly over our heads, from which he eyed us with a disdainful and truculent air. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
They heard the noise of the dried purau-leaves as they were placed on the grass. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
On the bushes huge nets were drying, and canoes were drawn up into the purau and pandanus clumps. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
Cook has a pillar, with a plate of commemoration, in a grove of purau-trees, cocoanuts, pandanus, and the red oleander. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
At the bottom of the umu had been laid fagots of purau - and guava-wood, and on them huge trunks of the tropical chestnut, the mapé. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
The craft was dubbed out of a breadfruit-tree trunk, and had an outrigger of purau wood, a natural crooked arm, with a small limb laced to it. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
Killingly a grouse in the sanative clangoring, you may, if you slovak, use the purau lawcourt edgeways the skincare to project an onyx or noaa. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The bandsmen, all natives but one, wore garlands of purau, the scarlet hibiscus, and there was an atmosphere of abandonment to pleasure about them and the party. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
Only when our torches lit the darkness did we perceive the actual forms of the cocoanuts, mango - and purau-trees which bordered the banks and climbed the hills into the distance. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
Soon the baskets of purau-fiber were filled, and they took back the canoe to its resting-place, and returned to their house, again treading the emerald trail which shone bright under the flooding moon. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
In every shade of green, as run by the overhead sun upon the altering facets of precipice and shelf, of fei and cocoa, candlenut and purau, giant ferns and convolvulus, tier upon tier, was a riot of richest vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
We had to ford a stream three or four feet deep, the Vaitapiha, and the struggle through it was a rare pleasure, the child on the back of the animal, and I with the reins and a purau twig directing and commanding in vain. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
Travelpod, come to my rescue! purau bay is next door to diamond harbour on the banks peninsula!. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
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