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Macadamia-crusted hapu (also known as hapu ` upu ` u, or grouper) was flaky and buttery, with a thick later of nut coating.
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Magus, hapu, värske ja soojavärviline - ehkki peab olema aega ja kannatust, et mõtteviljade valmimist oodata nagu selles antiikses vanasõnas, et aja ning õlgedega valmivad nespolad.
tatsutahime Diary Entry tatsutahime 2009
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Magus, hapu, värske ja soojavärviline - ehkki peab olema aega ja kannatust, et mõtteviljade valmimist oodata nagu selles antiikses vanasõnas, et aja ning õlgedega valmivad nespolad.
tatsutahime Diary Entry tatsutahime 2009
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The following games are exclusively practised by girls: (1) Hup dik, 'whirling in pairs' (2) Phishpu hapu dik, 'whirling in pairs' (3) Aghavuli, 'hoping synchronising with clapping' (4)
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Speaking of a recently restored waka traditional canoe that had just been stolen, the custodian of it said: I koha-ed it to the hapu and it was looking magnificent.
Archive 2007-04-01 StyleyGeek 2007
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Speaking of a recently restored waka traditional canoe that had just been stolen, the custodian of it said: I koha-ed it to the hapu and it was looking magnificent.
Awesomeness StyleyGeek 2007
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Somewhere you will find articles in which Maori speakers complain that terms like iwi, hapu and whanau all tribal/kinship terms are being misused as the straitjacket of the law imposes narrower, more Anglosaxon boundaries on their usage.
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Every man in a native hapu had to procure a musket, or die.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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If the warriors of the hapu had no guns they would soon be all killed by some tribe that had them.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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Pacific Island overstayers that joining his hapu would protect them from the Immigration
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