"Hawaiian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... century the Hawaiian islands have been the topic of various works of merit, and some explanation of the reasons which have led me to enter upon the same ...
— The Hawaiian Archipelago • Isabella L. Bird
... voices that it was far more pain than pleasure to handle all these reminders: the photographs, the yacht pennant, the golf-clubs, the rumpled and torn dominoes, the tumbler with "Cafe Henri" blown in the glass, the shabby camera, the old Hawaiian banjo. Oh, what fun it had all been, and what ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... The Hawaiian group consists, as you will see on the map, of eleven islands, of which Hawaii is the largest and Molokini the smallest. The islands together contain about 6000 square miles; and Hawaii alone has an area of nearly 4000 square miles, Maui 620, Oahu (which ...
— Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands • Charles Nordhoff
... common in the islands of the Pacific. It is native to the Sandwich islanders; and M. Jules Remy describes the Hawaiian royal mantle, which was being constructed of yellow birds' feathers through seven consecutive reigns, and was valued in Hawaii at 5,000,000 francs. A mantle of this description is ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford
... apparently do not possess a single specialized word for "mother." The Hawaiian, for example, calls "mother and the sisters of the mother" makua wahine, "female parent," that being the nearest equivalent of our "mother," while in Tonga, as indeed with us to-day, sometimes the same term is applied ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
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