long-house

Indeed missionaries are a great source, even if sometimes their cultural innocence gets them into trouble; like when one Micronesian tribe required human sacrifice to the Gods for the dedication of a long-house, usually supplied by slaves captured in raids from other tribes.

Archive 2006-12-01 Elizabeth McClung 2006

Indeed missionaries are a great source, even if sometimes their cultural innocence gets them into trouble; like when one Micronesian tribe required human sacrifice to the Gods for the dedication of a long-house, usually supplied by slaves captured in raids from other tribes.

Six weird things about me: the home game! Elizabeth McClung 2006

Within the long-house, the temperature matched the humidity.

The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

It did not help matters, either, that the hut was less than a hundred paces from the principal long-house of the Star Brothers 'guards.

Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992

When Father Jogues came back, he found the village divided into two parties -- one wishing his death, the other inclined to show him mercy, and after infinite wrangling between the factions, he was suddenly killed by a blow from a tomahawk as he was entering a long-house, to attend a feast to which he had been invited.

Canada J. G. Bourinot

It seemed that she had been straining tapioca in a little stream which flowed out of the jungle at the rear of the long-house when her attention was attracted by the crashing of an animal through the bushes

The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

The dwellers in the long-house extended every courtesy to Ninaka and his crew.

The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

For half an hour he searched in every direction, but finally, fearing that he might become lost in the mazes of the unfamiliar forest he reluctantly turned his face toward the river and the long-house that sheltered his party.

The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

The savages fairly trembled in anticipation of the commotion they would cause in the precincts of their long-house when they returned with six such magnificent trophies.

The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

One was dead, but the other was still conscious and had just sufficient vitality left after the coming of his fellows to whisper that they had been treacherously shot by the younger white man who had been at the long-house where they had found Muda Saffir -- then the fellow expired without having an opportunity to divulge the secret hiding place of the treasure, over the top of which his body lay.

The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912