Atu

Atu, she says, holding up the charred, armless, legless lump she carries, “Atu,” I say, and she makes a little noise like a moan and cuddles her perfect baby.

The Other Side of Dark Sarah Smith 2010

Atu relayed that the student teacher would lecture in Swahili but they went so fast and tried to cover so many notes in complicated English that everyone was generally lost and confused.

Anyone? Anyone? A. Bennett 2008

Atu relayed that the student teacher would lecture in Swahili but they went so fast and tried to cover so many notes in complicated English that everyone was generally lost and confused.

Archive 2008-08-01 A. Bennett 2008

Last week I was sitting under a tree when Atu, one of my best students, sat down next to me to chat and play with my hair.

Archive 2008-08-01 A. Bennett 2008

Last week I was sitting under a tree when Atu, one of my best students, sat down next to me to chat and play with my hair.

Anyone? Anyone? A. Bennett 2008

Now there is a tsunami watch right here from Vancouver, all the way up to Atu (ph).

CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2006 2006

And then Atu all the way over to Dutch Harbor there is a warning.

CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2006 2006

Atu ai i te taata pihei te umu, ia oti taua umu ra i te pihei, haere aturaa tupua i te hiti o te umu a parau tana a haere ai i reira.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

I have translated the poem most carefully, and as accurately as possible into the peculiar metre and cast of expression which an Eastern Polynesian 'Atu-Pe'e, or Versifier, would immediately grasp as idiomatic.

Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse John Oxenham 1896

I have delivered the _Atu_ fish in his turning back, and I have performed that which thou didst order concerning him, and afterward I lay down within my eye.

Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings Epiphanius Wilson 1880