varo

Crabs being in the first category -- paapaa, -- would cost about thirteen cents a pound, and the succulent varo the same, whereas they were then two francs, or forty cents a pound.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

But he is not so odd as the varo one of the most delicious and expensive of Tahitian foods.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

I pondered as to this habit of the _varo_, and would have liked to persuade me that the male, being a courteous shrimp, combatted the invading hooks first in an effort to protect his mate.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

We found lobsters among the rocks, too, and on some beaches a strange kind of lobsterish delicacy called in Tahiti _varo_, a kind of mantis-shrimp that looks like a superlatively villainous centipede.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

I set a grapnel in each hole, and then returned to the first to pull out the varo.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

Catching _varo_ calls for much patience and dexterity.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

Others find that the varo rests uneasy within them, as though each claw or tooth of the comb grasped a vital part of their anatomy.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

Fanno i sepolcri tutto 'l loco varo; but also because of the intrinsic picturesqueness of this avenue of sepulchres beneath green trees upon a long soft grassy field.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Fanno i sepolcri tutto 'l loco varo; but also because of the intrinsic picturesqueness of this avenue of sepulchres beneath green trees upon a long soft grassy field.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

In the dark forest of aesthetics, particularly, he finds them at every turn, -- "fanno tutto il loco varo."

Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855