Featherston in pledge of peace, and memory of the sale; but owing to the heat, we soon adjourned to the karaka grove, where Hunia made a congratulatory and somewhat boastful speech, offering his friendship and alliance to Dr.
After dark, we could see the glare of the fires in the karaka groves, where the Maories were in council, and a government surveyor came in to report that he had met the dissentient Wanganuis riding fast toward the hills.
Strolling into the karaka groves, we came upon a Maori wooden tomb, of which the front was carved with figures three feet high, grotesque and obscene.
Whero, raising himself in the stirrups and catching at the nearest bough, he gave it a shake, which sent a shower of the karaka nuts tumbling down upon the little black heads and fighting fists.
The rendezvous of the fugitives was a tall karaka tree--a forest king rearing its giant stem full seventy feet above the mossy turf.
Mr. Karaka ends his long and eloquent appeal with a sentence which sounds the true keynote of the regret felt by the Parsis at being merely compared with the natives when they felt themselves to be morally and intellectually their superiors.
Mr. Dosabhai Framji Karaka gives the following explanation of this aversion.
How could a photograph even hint at the dark, glossy green of the glistening karaka leaves, the feathery, waving foliage of the lace bark, or the white and purple bloom of the koromiko?
The karaka tree, whose glossy, almost oily-looking leaves were in after days to be seen in every village, was another importation.
The karaka with its brilliantly polished green leaves and golden yellow fruit.
Karaka berries for winter use are dried in the sun.
Two or three canoes were hauled up under some karaka trees, which formed a pleasant grove in a sort of recess from the beach.
But kills too quick, too ugly, legs all stiff anyhow--all know that karaka poison.
A very great wise chief found how to get secret poison fromkaraka kernels.
But this great chief took part of karaka seed-poison, mixed with magic, and then it kills more slowly in one, two hours after, like as if the man died of himself.
The Government troops overtook the Hauhau rear-guard at Te Karaka flat, on the descent to the Waitotara River.
At Te Karaka Major Kepa, the fighting chief of the Whanganuis, was leading the advance-guard of the pursuing force, when he was hotly attacked by the Hauhaus who had planted an ambush in the bush.
Little Swanki, the Piccaninny girl, and Tiki, the Piccaninny boy, were up in a karaka tree eating the pulp of the ripe berries.
When I was young I was told I would die if I ate the karaka berries, but I suppose Piccaninny tummies are different.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "karaka" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
