Tinor placed before him a calabash of poee-poee, from which the stranger regaled himself, alternating every mouthful with some rapid exclamation, which was eagerly caught up and echoed by the crowd that completely filled the house.
But the tenants of the Typee valley, as yet exempt from these inflictions, generally employ the 'arva' as a minister to social enjoyment, and a calabash of the liquid circulates among them as the bottle with us.
As my pretence for withdrawing from the house was to allay my thirst, Kory-Kory either suspecting some design on my part, or else prompted by a desire to please me, regularly every evening placed a calabash of water by my side.
Overjoyed at this, I seized a calabash of water, and dashed its contents upon his face, then wiping away the blood, anxiously examined the wound.
As the oleaginous matter exudes, it falls in drops through the apertures into a wide-mouthed calabash placed underneath.
So stubborn was its consistency, that in conveying my heavily-weighted hand to my mouth, the connecting links almost raised the calabash from the mats on which it had been placed.
Konah ran to the brook, and returned with a calabash of water, and the little company crouched upon the ground to enjoy what to them was a succulent repast.
Yes truly, few men that worship by the rotatory Calabash of the Calmucks do it in half so great, frank or effectual a way.
I should much prefer them to a calabash of beef fat with a rag for a wick, which is sometimes used by Auwae's mother.
One after another, or all together, however it may happen, the company dip into the great calabash and skilfully roll balls of the paste on their forefingers, bringing it to their mouths without dropping a particle.
When there are many visitors at Auwae's home, this calabash is used at meal-time.
The food is quickly eaten, after which the little girl passes a calabash of water around among the company.
In the centre stood several immense earthenware pots full of the pink liquor, while several smaller pots, each with a cleft-calabash spoon floating in it, were circulating among the guests.
Last year I might have sent you a cow, which would have kept your children's calabash always full, but now that the Rinderpest has emptied my kraal I am a poor man--so poor that I cannot even offer you a drink of sour milk.
When a man wished to catch ducks, he placed a big calabash over his head, and waded cautiously out into the water until it was just deep enough for it to look as if his calabash were floating.
Her heart is extracted from the lion, is placed in a calabash of milk, and the girl comes to life again.
The women gathered themselves up and sat round a large calabash of poi, conveying the sour paste to their mouths with an inimitable twist of the fingers, laying their heads back and closing their eyes with a look of animal satisfaction.
We have all had a meal, sitting round a large calabash of poi and a fowl, which was killed in my honour, and roasted in one of their stone ovens.
I was amused to see him afterwards, sitting on a mat among his family and dependants, helping himself to poi from a calabash with his fingers.
They often dip their hands in a calabash of water to aid them in removing the sticky mass, and they always look hot and tired.
The mode of washing was peculiar: he held a calabash with about half-a-pint of water in it, while we bathed our faces and hands, and all the natives looked on and tittered.
Two men came in, but not the native wife and family, and sat down to a calabash of poi and some strips of dried beef, food so coarse, that they apologised for not offering it to me.
They spread the finest mat I have seen in the centre of the floor as a tablecloth, and put down on it bowls containing the fowl and sweet potatoes, and the unfailing calabash of poi.
A Hawaiian could not exist without his calabash of poi.
However, a little persuasion induced one of the peons to secure us a calabash of milk, although his task was not an easy one.
Near the house stood a largecalabash tree, bearing the largest fruit of the kind we had yet observed.
Aside from the single metal kettle above mentioned, all other culinary utensils are made from the fruit of the calabash tree.
Its absence here reminded us of the difficulty we found in getting a calabash of milk on the great cattle farms of the llanos.
The man carried a machete, and a few rush mats; the woman a few simple culinary utensils consisting mainly of a metal pot and a few calabash cups and dishes.
Forthwith the males strolled back, carried the supper to their respective huts, and in due time replaced the empty calabash upon the stone, whence the women removed it.
This tree, which supplies the calabash used throughout Central America, has some very odd peculiarities.
Presently the woman he had buried in the sand was seen going towards him with a calabash of water, followed by the other, who carried a dish of sangleh.
He sent them only a few bananas, and a calabash of eggs, which were all stale and unfit to be eaten, so that some of their people were obliged to go supperless to bed.
In the evening, the travellers received a fat goat, a basket of caffas, a calabash of bananas, a vast quantity of yams, and a bowl of milk from the governor.
One old woman had the misfortune to let a large calabashof palm oil fall from her head: on arriving at the spot, they found a party of females, her companions in slavery, wringing their hands and crying.
In presenting him even with a calabash containing his food, after she has cooked it, she kneels and offers it with an averted look, it being deemed too bold to stare him full in the face.
When they had breakfasted and swallowed a calabash of water from the stream, the Landers were served with a plateful, and afterwards the boat's crew and the slaves were likewise regaled with yams and wafer.
While in his yard, he regaled them with water, and afterwards sent them a large calabash of foorah sweetened with honey to their lodgings, which did not taste unlike thick gruel or burgoo, as it is termed in Scotland.
They crossed two or three rivulets of cool delicious water, as they had done on the preceding day, and then passed through an insignificant village, whose chief sent them a calabash of bruised corn, mixed with water, to drink.
An opening is left at the top of the smaller calabash to increase the resonance.
The calabash was the ipu here mentioned, the same as the hano wai (verse 13), a water-container.
In families where they make any pretensions to cleanliness, a small calabash of water is passed around, and each one rinses his or her fingers before commencing to eat.
A large calabash of "poi" is placed on the mats; around this the family seat themselves.
If he answered in the affirmative, the father called for a calabash of achioc, and he himself, the bride, and the bridegroom, all tasted of the beverage.
It is now overgrown with sour orange and calabash trees, the latter bearing large fruit shells so useful to the Indians in making pilches or cups.
She went into her hut, and returned presently with a calabash filled with fat and a square of wax.
Before the shouting arose that Muata was gone, he found a calabash of fat for the cooking, by the door of a hut.
Then working round with the object of finding which of the three openings she had taken on leaving, he came upon a calabash and a kaross made of goats'-skin.
One calabash contained water, and this he carried back, together with something equally precious--a bunch of bananas that were black with smoke, yet fit to eat by any one who was very hungry or did not see them.
She put them under a stone by the spring, and another maiden would come from the other side, and take them on in her calabash or mealie-jar.
Meanwhile a simple Kaffir girl would pass the Boer camp, calabash on head, going to fetch water from the spring in the early morning.
The calabash carriers were obliged, when any person appeared in sight, to call out Noho.
We approached to examine them, and I recognized them as calabash trees, the fruit of which grows in a curious way on the stems, and is a species of gourd, from the hard rind of which bowls, spoons and bottles can be made.
Fritz instantly took up one of the gourds, and tried to split it equally with his knife, but in vain; the blade slipped, and the calabash was cut jaggedly.
And the slave gave it to her and she drank and purposely threw down the calabash and broke it.
And he gave her the water and she drank, and, having finished drinking, she purposely threw down the calabash and broke it.
He therefore took a second calabash and went back and drew water in the calabash from the lake and Hine-Moa again said to him, 'Whom is that: water for?
Then the servant asked her, 'What business had you to break the calabash of Tutanekai?
After struggling onward for a short time, we emerged from the thickets into open ground, and saw the calabash trees in the distance.
Fritz instantly took up one of the gourds, and tried to split it equally with his knife, but in vain: the blade slipped, and the calabash was cut jaggedly.
I first took a large calabash gourd, for I intended to make a beehive, that, when we had driven the insects from their present abode, we might not lose them entirely.
Leaving Calabash Wood behind us, we advanced over ground covered with manioc, potatoes and many plants unknown to us; pleasant streamlets watered the fruitful soil, and the view on all sides was open and agreeable.
Chapter 7 The first thing to be done on the following day was to return to the Calabash Wood, to fetch the sledge with the dishes, bowls and baskets we had made.
As we came towards the Calabash Wood, we could hear the voices of the deserted mother and child calling us in anxious tones; for indeed our protracted absence alarmed them.
In time we reached the sledge in Calabash Wood: the ass was unloaded, everything placed on the sledge, and our patient beast began calmly and readily to drag the burden he had hitherto borne on his back.
This needful work we set about, therefore, at once, proposing afterwards an excursion to the Calabash Wood, in order to manufacture a large supply of vessels and utensils of all sorts and sizes.
They go about the streets begging piteously, with a calabash inkstand and reed-pen in their hands.
He purchased a large calabashof milk, and a peck of beans, for some small pieces of jaui, or benzoin.
The bridegroom followed me to my tent, rattling his calabashfor a present, singing my praises cheaply enough, for I gave him a very small present indeed.
There was a quiet smile on the lieutenant's face as he received the calabash from the old woman's hand.
Give me a calabash of water from that spring of yours, your grace, and I'll take myself off," said he.
Juanita had taken the calabashand had lifted it to her mouth, when Niña sprang forward and struck it to the floor.
He had descended into hell, had risen to paradise, and had brought back from the region of the blessed a calabash of the water of life.
He deigned, however, to empty at a single draught a calabash of Malaga that Willis gave him, but there his condescension stopped.
The stoppage was made in sight of the village of Coary, a dozen houses, considerably dilapidated, built in the midst of a thick mass of orange and calabash trees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calabash" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
