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Examples

  • I'll say "Talofa" to the hearty souls who are watching in American Samoa, where it's just after two in the morning.

    Department Of Interior 2003

  • I handed it to my companion; and with a "Talofa" the only Tongan I knew -- I passed into the garden of the consulate.

    Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 04 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • I handed it to my companion; and with a "Talofa" the only Tongan I knew -- I passed into the garden of the consulate.

    Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • I handed it to my companion; and with a "Talofa" the only Tongan I knew -- I passed into the garden of the consulate.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • It was by my wrestling with the champions of Talofa that I first interested her.

    THE PRINCESS 2010

  • Princess Tui-nui of Talofa, the Princess of the Isle of Love.

    THE PRINCESS 2010

  • I said, and the commandant of the picket said ‘Talofa’; and then, when we were almost by, remembered himself and asked where we were going.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • I remembered how to say hello in Samoan from my brief stay there, so I said to him, “Talofa sole.”

    Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

  • I remembered how to say hello in Samoan from my brief stay there, so I said to him, “Talofa sole.”

    Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

  • If Mr. Stevenson called for his horse and started to town it was always Pola who flew to open the gate for him, waving a "_Talofa_!" and "Good luck to the traveling!"

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

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