"Tene" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and then developed mal-du-pays to such an extent that the local priest and devil-catcher, one Pare-vaka, was sent for by her female attendants. Pare-vaka was not long in making his diagnosis. A little devil in the shape of an octopus was in Tene-napa's brain. And he gave instructions how to get the fiend out, and also further instructions to one of the girl attendants to fix, point-upwards, in the sick woman's mat the foto, or barb of the sting-ray. So when Kennedy, who, in his rough, careless way, had some feint fondness for the ...
— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke
... in that tyde, he ta[gh]te (Gauan) hym in tene And gurdes me, Sir Gallerun, evyn grovelonges on grounde." (The Anturs of Arther at ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various |
