Punti

You remember a certain night last March -- off Cape Orso in the gulf, when the wind they call the Punti di Salerno was raging down and you had a jib bent for a mainsail, and your foresail close reefed and were shipping more green water than you like to think of.

The Children of the King 1881

All the Hakkas in Thistle Mountain admired her, and not just because she robbed Punti people.

the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995

But 1 heard the host bandit 1V1alden inside me say, Zicarecl. 'riow can you be scared f a Punti merchant with no feet?

the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995

The Punti people on the shore would not; if they interfered with fate, they would be responsible for those two people's undrowned lives.

the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995

He said, "Ai, Nunumu, don't go up there anymore, that's where the Punti merchant died, in the pavilion."

the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995

Punti, the Chinese who tain, just south of Changmian.

the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995

"Then you must go," piously replied the Punti who ran the house.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

Of course, this answer was meaningless to the Punti, so they said, "We still don't understand how you did it."

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

Of the one hundred and fifty Punti who were sent, one hundred and ten did not want to go.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

Of course, the Punti ridiculed them, and on those rare occasions when a Hakka woman wandered into Canton, the city people stared, but these resolute, difficult, obstinate guests from the north refused to be dictated to.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959