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- noun A person from the
Sandwich Islands .
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Examples
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The Sandwich Islander is confident that the strength and valor of his slain enemy pass into himself.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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As for color, a Sandwich Islander would have danced with joy at the sight of those reds, purples, yellows, and greens.
Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall
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Before he had time to rise, Atoa, the Sandwich Islander, sprang upon him, and stabbed him twice with his belt-knife.
The Island Home Richard Archer
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As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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The Sandwich Islander, who could speak English, told us that he had been up to the town; that our agent, Mr. R, and some other passengers, were going to Monterey with us, and that we were to sail the same night.
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The missionary can condemn a cannibal, precisely because he cannot condemn a Sandwich Islander.
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The Kanaka -- which means man -- is a Sandwich Islander, with a Malayan base.
The Ragged Edge Harold MacGrath 1901
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Haydon says of him that he was like a fine Sandwich Islander, who had been educated in the Highlands.
Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities 1879
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First we commence with the ape, then the Hottentot, then the Sandwich Islander who loves and eats the tender missionary who taught him to love his fellow man, then the
Saratoga in 1901 1872
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The Sandwich Islander, who could speak English, told us that he had been up to the town; that our agent, Mr. R-- -, and some other passengers, were going to Monterey with us, and that we were to sail the same night.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869
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