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Examples
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A gill of the yava is a sufficient dose for a man.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784
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Most of our popular tales date from days when the primitive Aryan took his evening meal of yava and fermented mead, and the dusky Sudra roamed the Punjab.
A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready
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And the reader will often hear of the intemperate use and had effects of the ava or yava.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784
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This perhaps is something on the same principle as the gout is accounted among us, an evidence of a person's being rich; for it appears, that the common people in general are as unable to procure the yava in Otaheite, as they are on our side of the world to indulge in luxurious living.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784
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"On the discontinuance of the practice of drinking the yava, the skin of the leprous persons soon becomes smooth and clear, and they grow fat, though few are found who deny themselves the use of it."
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784
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Food and commerce in the Indus River Valley was based on barley (yava), copper (ayas) and cattle.
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Food and commerce in the Indus River Valley was based on barley (yava), copper (ayas) and cattle.
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There is indeed no alternative for us but to admit that these fireside tales have been handed down from parent to child for more than a hundred generations; that the primitive Aryan cottager, as he took his evening meal of yava and sipped his fermented mead, listened with his children to the stories of Boots and Cinderella and the Master Thief, in the days when the squat Laplander was master of Europe and the dark-skinned Sudra was as yet unmolested in the Punjab.
Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872
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"Ichokwadi kuti mota dzedu, nemigwagwa yedu yava midiki asi hatichadi vatyairi vanoita basa rekungovhetemedza mota vachiita kunge ndivo vega pamugwagwa.
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"Ichokwadi kuti mota dzedu, nemigwagwa yedu yava midiki asi hatichadi vatyairi vanoita basa rekungovhetemedza mota vachiita kunge ndivo vega pamugwagwa.
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