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Examples
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Cheney is like a Wart you just can't get rid of no matter what. mapu
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In any event, told by his mapu that a certain Japanese groom was stealing fodder belonging to London, the headstrong Californian marched to the stable area and confronted the groom.
JACK LONDON'S WAR 2010
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Each cavalier had a _mapu_ to guide the horse, and another man by his side to see that he did not fall off, each having thus two men to look after him.
Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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The water-coolie is almost as much of a "personality," as the _mapu_, in his rude independent ways.
Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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The inevitable long pipe is not forgotten, and is carried, after the fashion of the _mapu_, stuck down the back.
Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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Ka huli a ka makani Wai-a-ma'o, [294] 20 Makemake e iki ia ka Hala-mapu-ana,
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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The toqui or military dictator directs what number of soldiers is to be furnished by each Uthal-mapu or principality.
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Uthal-mapu is divided into five provinces, called _Ailla-regue_; and each province into nine districts, termed _regue.
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The sky is called _Guenu-mapu_, or the heavenly country; the moon _Cuyenmapu_, or the country of the moon.
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By their traditionary laws, called _Ad-mapu_ or customs of the country, two or more principalities, provinces, or districts cannot be held by the same chief.
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