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Example sentences for "pakehas"

Lexicographically close words:
paix; pajama; pajamas; pak; pakeha; paku; pal; palabra; palabras; palace
  1. He could not, however, mistake my warlike and rebellious attitude, and could see clearly I was going into one of those most unaccountable rages that pakehas were liable to fly into, without any imaginable cause.

  2. Altogether this taua is better and more uniformly armed and equipped than ordinary; but they have been amongst the first who got pakehas to trade with them, and are indeed in consequence the terror of New Zealand.

  3. He would have welcomed me, however, had I been as poor as Job, for pakehas were, in those days, at an enormous premium.

  4. Indeed I have in the good old times known several pakehas who "thought there was something in it," and two who formally and believingly consulted the oracle, and paid a high douceur to the priest.

  5. It was one of the pakehas formerly mentioned.

  6. When we wrote to Petatone, we asked him that he would bring with him Pakehas from England and from Australia--Pakehas from all parts of the Queen's broad lands.

  7. Pakehas who should return to tell the Queen that the Ngatiapa are her liegemen.

  8. Many Pakehas have tried to settle it--in vain.

  9. The Pakehas were not men to whom the natives were accustomed.

  10. Aiding some vile pakehas In deeds subversive of the laws.

  11. My father wanted these pakehas to come with him, and take it from you; but they all declared that was against the law of the pakehas.

  12. What strange animals you pakehas bring over the sea!

  13. He knew that, and the pakehas talked fair.

  14. Indeed, our chum is generally looked upon by the Maoris as a sort of chief among the Pakehas of the district.

  15. Arama has a pet theory, on which he often enlarges in picturesque style to such Pakehas as he considers as of more than common note.

  16. Pakehas who knew no better called the muru simply "robbery," because the word muru, in its common signification, means to plunder.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pakehas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.