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October 26, 2008 at 3:02 am yur rite! luks lyke doodee in a kalye… kalai… kal-eye-duh-skope.
Player Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Xenophon describes the women of Armenia as kalai kai megalai, and we should still speak of one as fair and tall and of another as fair but little.
The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana 1907
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Na akua aumakua o ka poe kahuna kalai waa, p. 216. nae, the farther side, p. 116. na-u, jessamine, gardenia. noa, pertaining to the lower class of people, p. 135.
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This trio were called by the old people the gods of the canoe-making priests -- "_Na akua aumakua o ka poe kahuna kalai waa. _"
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Around him are all manner of copper kitchen utensils, handies, or deckshies, kettles, frying-pans, and what not, and there are also on the ground some rings of kalai, commonly called tin; but pure tin is an expensive metal, and I do not think it is any part of the Kalai-wallah's care to see that you are not poisoned with lead.
Behind the Bungalow Edward Hamilton Aitken 1880
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Every sort of kahuna was at bottom and in some regard a priest, his special department being indicated by a qualifying word, as _kahuna anaana_, sorcerer, _kahuna kalai wa'a_, canoe-maker.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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‘contrivers,’ douleia for douloi, basileiai for basileis, mainomena kedeumata for ganaika mainomenen; e chreia ton paidon in the sense of ‘indigent children,’ and paidon ikanotes; to ethos tes apeirias for e eiothuia apeiria; kuparitton upse te kai kalle thaumasia for kuparittoi mala upselai kai kalai.
Laws 2006
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kalai, HC - thanks! will convey your thoughts to my hubby:D
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kalai, siri - thanks! do try them if you get a chance!
Molten Chocolate Cupcakes with Raspberry Filling - Preparing for Valentine's Day 2008
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20, _Ke kahuna kalai-hoe o Puu-ka-Pele_, the paddle-making kahuna of Pele's mount, when declared by the poet
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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