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  • The head is esteemed the most powerful devil-devil on Malaita, and to the possession of it is ascribed all of Mauki's greatness.

    MAUKI 2010

  • Ay, and he had heard of one white man whose particular devil-devil was so powerful that he could take out all his teeth and put them back at will.

    MAUKI 2010

  • Those of our priests that yet lived we killed because they could not overcome the devil-devil.

    YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010

  • Telling Binu Charley to remove the ear-rings, and directing the Poonga-Poonga men to carry out the old fire-tender, Sheldon cleared the devil-devil house and set fire to it.

    Chapter 25 2010

  • Some time he made kanaka plenty cross along him and kanaka want 'm kill m, kanaka he think devil-devil and kanaka he hear that fella mate sing out, Yah!

    YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010

  • "The six men who were put ashore were the first to catch the devil-devil the skippers sent back after us."

    YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010

  • It was one of Koho's tambos, given him by the devil-devil doctors when he was born, that never was his flesh to come in contact with the flesh of a white man.

    THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON 2010

  • Then the skippers said that it was all very well, but just to show us that they did not forget us, they would send a devil-devil that we would never forget and that we would always remember any time we might feel like harming a white man.

    YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010

  • Here, you, Adamu Adam, give this devil-devil a wash.

    Chapter 11 2010

  • Ancient and withered, blackened by many years of the smoke of the devil-devil house, nevertheless the shrunken, mummy-like face was unmistakably Chinese.

    Chapter 25 2010

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