He had a strong staff made from an ohia tree (the native apple tree).
One day, therefore, when after the great spring Ohia grasped Nella by her hands, an abrupt movement suddenly precipitated the young girl outside the net.
It happened that the applause was warmer for Nella, the vaulter, than for Ohia who caught her; and on this [p265] account the miserable girl hated her companion so intensely that she resolved to kill her.
Whatever force impelled it had ceased to act, and the last towering wave of fire had halted just there, and lies a black arrested surge 10 feet high, with tender ferns at its feet, and a scarcely singed ohia bending over it.
There the ohia trees were relieved blackly against the sky.
The water was up to their waists, and leis of ohia blossoms and ferns, and masses of unbound hair fantastically wreathed with moss, fell over their faultless forms, and their rich brown skin gleamed in the slant sunshine.
The country altered but little, only the variety of trees gave place to the ohia alone, with its sombre foliage.
The dress of the Hawaiian men was more varied and singular than that of the women, every kind of dress and undress, with leis of ohia and garlands of maile covering all deficiencies.
A grove of mountain-apples, ohia ai, that stand on the bank of the stream not far from the public road.
Pele has made of it a heap of ruins; the trees of the mountains have descended toward the sea; the ohia and pandanus are on the shore.
She called to Ku and to Hina, telling them to give the child into the hands of the strangers, that they might take her to Waka, a great priestess, to be brought up by her in the ohia forests of the island of Hawaii.
Two of the tree people were women, Ohiaand Lamakea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ohia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
