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Examples
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One question for you on the welsh, do you sing that song after the Tongan, Samoan, and fijian hakas?
Kapa O Pango Rogers 2006
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Per hakilo ni hakas, per segilo ni segas, per fosilo ni fosas, per kudrilo ni kudras, per tondilo ni tondas.
The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians Helen Fryer
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"Per" signifies "by means of"; it denotes the "instrument" by means of which something is done, as "Per hakilo ni hakas", By means of an axe we chop.
The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians Helen Fryer
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As each vessel came abreast, wild, enraptured cheering broke out, and, with all the power of healthy lungs, with enthusiasm unreserved, with cooees and hakas and scrappy messages semaphored by the arms, the Australians and New Zealanders met in a deep friendship which was to last through years of campaigning and privation.
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Umi, therefore, ordered Kalei and her relatives to be set at liberty, while the priests and shark kahunas were requested to make offerings and invocations to Kamohoalii that his spirit might take possession of one of his _hakas_ (mediums devoted to his cult), and so express to humanity his desires in regard to his bad son, who had presumed to eat human beings, a practice well known to be contrary to Kamohoalii's design.
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It's a bit like rival hakas in that other sport with a different-shaped ball.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Thom Gibbs 2011
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We learned the haka and would do it every morning - I know five different hakas.
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If you compiled an all-time top-10 of All Black hakas - and somebody down here surely will - Weepu will star as lead vocal in all of them.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Brendan Gallagher 2011
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The morning was grey and misty and as the canoe came up from the south we heard two or three hakas before we actually saw it.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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He jerked his head at the vastness beyond the window and added with an air of defiance: “And I don’t mean the introduction of native bird song and Maori hakas into an ersatz symphony.”
Died in the Wool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1945
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