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Kilohana, took me off my horse, in his arms, and carried me in, and routed the women from their beds to undress me and lomi me, while he plied me with hot toddies and drugged me to sleep and forgetfulness.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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After traditional lomi lomi massages at the spa, we went to bed early so we could catch the sunrise.
Highway to Heaven Kevin Sintumuang 2012
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It is called by them lomi'd salmon – from lomi-lomi, massage – the salt salmon being pulled to pieces by the fingers with much the same movement used in their famous massaging.
Jack London's Recipes: An Insight Into Jack's Dietary Habits 2010
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Both Bella's and Martha's eyes were luminous-moist, as the old retainer repeated the lomi and the mele to Martha, and as they talked with her in the ancient tongue and asked the immemorial questions about her health and age and great-great-grandchildren — she who had lomied them as babies in the great house at Kilohana, as her ancestresses had lomied their ancestresses back through the unnumbered generations.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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As evening approached, the faculty and the first campers of Aloha Quilt Camp gathered on the central lanai for a Welcome Luau, full of all the delicious flavors Bonnie had come to love: kalua pork cooked all day in the imu, steamed chicken laulaus, vegetable long rice, lomi lomi salmon, and taro rolls, with coconut pudding haupia for dessert.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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Many Hawaiians serve the pork in tacos, alongside lomi salmon, or in a lumpia, a Filipino-style egg roll, long and thin like a cigar.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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As evening approached, the faculty and the first campers of Aloha Quilt Camp gathered on the central lanai for a Welcome Luau, full of all the delicious flavors Bonnie had come to love: kalua pork cooked all day in the imu, steamed chicken laulaus, vegetable long rice, lomi lomi salmon, and taro rolls, with coconut pudding haupia for dessert.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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As evening approached, the faculty and the first campers of Aloha Quilt Camp gathered on the central lanai for a Welcome Luau, full of all the delicious flavors Bonnie had come to love: kalua pork cooked all day in the imu, steamed chicken laulaus, vegetable long rice, lomi lomi salmon, and taro rolls, with coconut pudding haupia for dessert.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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She tried some of the pungent bits of pink salmon that Joel told her was lomi lomi, and of course, Tony insisted she try some of the poi his wife brought in a small plastic bag.
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
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She tried some of the pungent bits of pink salmon that Joel told her was lomi lomi, and of course, Tony insisted she try some of the poi his wife brought in a small plastic bag.
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
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