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  • When he had gone into the house the bird stopped feeding, turned first one eye and then the other toward the empty sky, stretched his long, black neck and clean white throat, and sent out across the green spaces his appealing and lonely cry, -- _honka, honka, honka, ho-onka_!

    The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • Masepala o lokela hoba le "Rates Policy" e "Adoptilweng" ke "Council" ka mora hore setjhaba se fuwe sebaka sa honka karolo ho phehiseng.

    SPEECH BY MR S MSHUDULU, ANC MP DURING THE PROPERTY RATES BILL DEBATE 2004

  • He stared around, and then, turning his one eye skyward, as if he thought Young Grumpy might have gone that way, he trumpeted a loud _honka-honka-honk -- kah_.

    Children of the Wild Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • Since I haven't been posting as much, I thought I'd write a huge honka-monga post on one of my favorite places ever!

    Weddingbee 2008

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