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Olelo aku ka Makaula, "Aole he mau waa maoli, ma ka opua ka'u ike ana aku la, apopo e ike kakou he waa Alii."
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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I ua ahiahi la, mamua o ka napoo ana o ka la, e noho ana ka Makaula ma ka puka o ka hale, nana aku la oia i ke kuku o na opua ma ka nana ana i na ouli o ke ao, a like me ka mea mau i ka poe kilokilo mai ka wa kahiko mai a hiki i keia manawa.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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OLI, THE 254-256 illustration of: _Ka wai opua-makani o Wailua_ 255
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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Aia i Kau-lana-ka-la, [513] 10 I ka pae opua i ke kai, [514]
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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Elua la, huli ka Wai-opua, [491] 5 Nete i ke kula,
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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Sed quando lectio omnium prope Codd. sensum bo - num auppeditat -, rion opua est 'coniecturis» Neque irniuci posfc sum, ut credam Ovidium lotio - nem ovium ita eiocuturum fuisse.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812
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Their fondness for personification showed itself in the final conversion of this phrase into something like a proper name, which they applied to the locality of the phenomenon.] [Footnote 514: _Pae opua i ke kai_.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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A high cliff against which the waves dash.] [Footnote 497: _Wai-opua_.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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Sea of the gods, because calm.] [Footnote 491: _Wai-opua_.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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