In the south of Ceylon it is called the Matura tea-tree, its leaves being infused as a substitute for tea.
This duty was imposed upon Jaffnapatam, because the trees in Galle and Matura had become unfruitful from the Company's elephants having to be fed with the leaves.
Colombo, Galle, and Matura a sufficient number of elephants may be procured to make up for the deficiency in Jaffnapatam, if we only know a year before what number would be required, which must be always inquired into.
Donna Matura was of her country, that cheerful, laughing Midland of the Po, and neither felt the Venetian throb of pleasure nor conceived the excesses of Venetian pain.
The sight of a handsome girl shuddering in a cold stare under the grip of an evil spirit can never be pleasant; and where the experienced Donna Matura shrank from what she saw and heard, it becomes not me to tread.
To make herself the more sure she gave orders to Donna Matura to close all the shutters alike.
But the innocence thus revealed was of no avail; for the priest and Matura died on the island, and there was an end of it as far as that went.
He had chanted vespers regularly three times a day, while Matura had confessed to him, sang to him, and made him garments of the feathers of birds, the flesh of which furnished them with food.
Well, they descried the island, and having landed, found the bones of the priest and Matura in a cave, on the side of a steep bluff.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "matura" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
