Oberea

In this expedition, the lieutenant had seen the celebrated Oberea, who has been so much the object of poetical fancy.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

In this expedition, the lieutenant had seen the celebrated Oberea, who has been so much the object of poetical fancy.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

Tomio, and Oberea, that they would not be to leave it till the fugitives were returned; and the lieutenant had the pleasure of observing, that they received the intimation with very little indications of alarm, and with assurances, that his people should be secured and sent back as soon as possible.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

Tomio, and Oberea, that they would not be to leave it till the fugitives were returned; and the lieutenant had the pleasure of observing, that they received the intimation with very little indications of alarm, and with assurances, that his people should be secured and sent back as soon as possible.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

Bowles says, "he might have added, it is disgusting as it is dull, and no more like Chaucer than a _Billingsgate_ is like an Oberea."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

When an American mother tells me with pride, as occasionally happens, that her daughter can walk two miles and back without great fatigue, the very boast seems a tragedy; but when one reads that Oberea, queen of the Sandwich Islands, lifted Captain Wallis over a marsh as easily as if he had been a little child, there is a slight sense of consolation.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

A parenthetical reference may be made to the amazing strength of the Tahitian queen Oberea.

The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul 1923

I looked long at this ruined pagan tabernacle, this arc of the covenant for Oberea and Oamo, and for Tetuanui's fathers.

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

Oberea was an ancestress of my host of Papara, Tati Salmon, who had the table-ware of Stevenson, and who was of the clan of Teva, as she.

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

She was not a daughter of a king or queen, but she was near to royalty, and herself as aristocratic in carriage and manner as was Oberea, who loved Captain Cook.

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