In proud silence Victo listened to this deliberate arraignment, not deigning to interpose denial, or offer plea in self-defence, until the paba was clearly at an end.
And, by this, his questioners learned that, humanly speaking, the fate of the Sun God's Children depended almost entirely upon the whim or fancy of the chief paba of the teocalli.
They are speaking falsely, or--or the paba lies, when trying to thus interpret the oracle!
Montezuma and the Paba Columbus died poor and in prison because nobody was interested in his effort to find a northwest passage to India, or cared whether the earth was round or flat.
As the king approached the Paba said: "The gloomy clouds hanging overhead are not darker than is the mood of Quetzalcoatl, but to the poor Paba the voice of the king is ever welcome.
There is no other, this is the last," answered the Paba sadly.
Groping their way through the great underground cavern, but dimly lighted, the Paba said: "Son of a king, is your heart strong?
So I was loosed and led into the sanctuary, and when I came out the paba announced to the people that the god had declared me to be one of his children, and it was for this reason that then and thereafter they treated me with reverence.
It seemed to me that I lay there for years while the paba aimed and pointed with the knife, but at last through a mist that gathered before my eyes, I saw it flash upward.
The paba humbled himself before the speaker, and said, slowly and tearfully, "The wise king is blinded by his hope.
Measuring time in the chamber by its upper-world divisions, noon and night came, and still the pabalay in the dismal coma.
The paba had said the sleep was wakeless; and that was a mystery unreported by tradition, unknown to his philosophy, and rarer, if not greater, than death.
The paba arose from his stooping, and upon the 'tzin flashed the old magnetic flame.
The violence and incoherency astonished the 'tzin, and as he looked at the paba fixedly, he was sensible for the first time of a fear that the good man's mind was affected.
The loving hands took off his warlike trappings, and covering him with the frock of a paba set him on the step of the altar at the feet of the god; then the darkness became perfect, and he knew no more.
The paba might have been observing the events of the future, as, one by one, they rose and passed before his abstracted vision.
The pabatook a pearl from the folds of his gown, and laid it before her; then he sat down, and fixed his eyes upon her face; she looked at the jewel, and composed herself as for sleep.
Looking to the couch, whither she had gone, he saw the figure of the paba stretched out like a corpse.
And fare thee well, my pretty Brenda, and keep a thought for me, should the Paba men dance ever so well.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paba" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
