Diversions of a Prime MinisterBlackwood, 1894 - 407 páginas |
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... look very bright certainly , but I would not admit this to him , and before I left we had arranged to visit the king in Haapai , while Kubu , the Minister of Police , and his uncle , Sateki , were to leave at once for the outlying ...
... look very bright certainly , but I would not admit this to him , and before I left we had arranged to visit the king in Haapai , while Kubu , the Minister of Police , and his uncle , Sateki , were to leave at once for the outlying ...
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... his kindly expression and burly figure give him the appear- ance of a gentleman farmer when times were good . He is , moreover , almost the only Tongan who , in dress clothes , looks like a gentleman . We had been good friends.
... his kindly expression and burly figure give him the appear- ance of a gentleman farmer when times were good . He is , moreover , almost the only Tongan who , in dress clothes , looks like a gentleman . We had been good friends.
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Basil Thomson. looks like a gentleman . We had been good friends during my former visit , while his wife Fujipala was still alive . When they dined with me on that occasion , they drove up in an antiquated buggy , with a Hindustani ...
Basil Thomson. looks like a gentleman . We had been good friends during my former visit , while his wife Fujipala was still alive . When they dined with me on that occasion , they drove up in an antiquated buggy , with a Hindustani ...
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... look if it had not been evidently involuntary . Tukuaho had slunk off to the place of dishonour behind the bowl , where some of the attendants were pounding the root on a flat stone that rang out melodiously . This was because his The ...
... look if it had not been evidently involuntary . Tukuaho had slunk off to the place of dishonour behind the bowl , where some of the attendants were pounding the root on a flat stone that rang out melodiously . This was because his The ...
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... look- ing at it , said , " Perhaps this fellow lied , and the kava is poison after all : let another drink first , that we may know . " And he gave the cup to the matabule on his left . hand , bidding him drink , and the chief sat ...
... look- ing at it , said , " Perhaps this fellow lied , and the kava is poison after all : let another drink first , that we may know . " And he gave the cup to the matabule on his left . hand , bidding him drink , and the chief sat ...
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