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Examples
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When seen in the morning it is called the Fetu ao, or _morning star_, and is said to have
Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner
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According to Barbot (iii. 23), the people of Fetu on the Gold Coast and the men of Benin used to toast the corpse on a wooden gridiron; and the
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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An agreement was made with the natives of the neighboring region of Fetu, who acted in conjunction with the
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Nukufetau, Fetu and Vailele would run to a tall and slender _fau_ tree that grew on their mother's land, and cut on its dark brown bark a broad notch.
Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 Louis Becke 1884
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When the time came for Big Harry to say farewell, he called to him his wife and the two girls -- Fetu was fourteen, and Vailele twelve -- and, bidding them lower down the door of plaited thatch so that they might not be observed, he unearthed the keg of dollars, and, knocking off the two topmost hoops, took out the head.
Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 Louis Becke 1884
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And it was his little girl -- the little Fetu from whom he had parted at
Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 Louis Becke 1884
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Children had been born to him -- two fair-skinned, dark-eyed, and gentle-voiced girls, named Fetu and Vailele.
Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 Louis Becke 1884
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Nearly a year passed before Big Harry, with his daughter Fetu, sailed into the placid waters of Nukufetau Lagoon, and of the glad meeting of those four happy souls there is no need to tell.
Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 Louis Becke 1884
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Fetu nodded her dark head, and then, hand in hand, the two girls walked back to their mother's house through the deepening gloom that had fallen upon the palm grove.
Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 Louis Becke 1884
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The elder, Fetu (The Star), was a quiet, reserved child, and had her father's slow, grave manner and thoughtful face.
Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 Louis Becke 1884
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