The New Orleans papers have been full of stories about the Mala Vita, the Mafia, or whatever you choose to call it.
But you have incurred the everlasting enmity of the Mala Vita, or what you term La Mafia, and it has been decided that your life must pay for his.
On crossing the imaginary line drawn from Punta Mala to Azuera the ships from Europe bound to Sulaco lose at once the strong breezes of the ocean.
It was as smooth as a pond, and for some reason sharks are unknown in the Placid Gulf, though on the other side of the Punta Mala the coastline swarms with them.
The figures show that, like other primitive jungle tribes in Southern India, the Mala Vedans are short of stature, dolichocephalic, and platyrhine.
The more important measurements of twenty-five Mala Vedans examined by myself were-- Max.
Hemingway writes that they "admit that they always arrange for a Mala couple to marry, before they have a marriage in their own houses, and that they provide the necessary funds for the Mala marriage.
Their god Chattan, or Sattan, has no fixed abode, but, where the Mala Vedans are, there is he in the midst of them.
On being pressed for the reason why he had not conformed to Mala Vedar fashion, he grinned, and said 'What beauty I was born with is enough for me.
The Mala Vedans practice the primitive method of kindling fire by the friction of wood (also practiced by the Kanakars), and, like the Kanakars, they eat the black monkey.
The Mala Vedans apparently possess no temples or shrines, but Hindus permit them to offer money at the Hindu shrines from a distance, at times of sudden sickness or during other seasons of panic.
About four miles from Tusis, and not far from the little village of Zillis, the Via Mala opens into a plain bounded by high terraces.
To the Via Mala I therefore went in 1864 to instruct myself upon the point in question.
Thus the modern portion of the Via Mala throws light upon the whole.
For, unless you could prove informality, barefaced negligence, or mala fides, what does it come to?
And wisely: for it would be most dangerous to the liberty of the subject, if a man could be imprisoned without remedy unless he could prove mala fides in the breast of the party incarcerating him.
Footnote 61: Remedia malorum potius quam mala differebat, is the fine censure which Tacitus passes on the supine indolence of Vitellius.
Being intended for the theatre, it has never been sharpened or pointed but, except for this it is a real mala vita knife.
All that I know about the mala vita in Sicily has been gathered from conversation, books and plays.
There was one other occasion when I thought I was going to see something of the mala vita.
Before writing about the mala vita one ought at least to have seen a man murdered in the street.
The women wear iron and silver bangles, and a palunka mala or necklace of variously coloured beads.
Then a Paraiyan or Mala repeats the formula "I am the first born (i.
They called this place Bahia de Mala Prelea, or the Bay of Evil Battle, on account of the misfortune they had here encountered.
We gave this bay the name of de Mala Prelea, or of the unlucky fight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mala" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
