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"The grapes and oranges are fine, but don't blame me if ghosts haunt you the rest of the year because of the hopia."
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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"I'm not sure, but I think hopia is to celebrate the end of ghost-month, and not for Chinese New Year."
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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"I'm not sure, but I think hopia is to celebrate the end of ghost-month, and not for Chinese New Year."
"Happy Chinese New Year!" (Part 2--The Fantasy Elements of Predictions) 2008
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"The grapes and oranges are fine, but don't blame me if ghosts haunt you the rest of the year because of the hopia."
"Happy Chinese New Year!" (Part 2--The Fantasy Elements of Predictions) 2008
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Vin also got me some hopia (munggo and baboy) for the Chinese New Year tonight.
Archive 2003-01-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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They buried her at Amherst, under the shadow of a lofty hopia tree; and in that lonely grave her form now reposes, heedless of what is passing on the earth.
Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission Daniel C. Eddy
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What were the feelings of Mrs. Shuck as she stood there over the spot so dear to every pious heart, or plucked a small branch of the "hopia tree" to send home to her sire, we do not know; but doubtless her mind was filled with sad forebodings and awful thoughts.
Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission Daniel C. Eddy
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She was buried under a _hopia_, or, as her friends loved to call it, a hope tree; and the Wades, coming shortly after, took charge of poor little Maria, who lived to be embraced by her father, on his arrival after three months 'absence; but she continued to pine away, and only survived her mother six months.
Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Why they even asked me about ube hopia and one-day-old chicks!
Our Awesome Planet 2008
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