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Example sentences for "palm wine"

  • SUGAR-PALM WINE Sugar-palm wine is obtained by tapping the fruit stem of the cabo negro palm.

  • The method of extraction is identical with that of the sugar-palm wine.

  • The Philippine Islanders offered fish, a jar of palm wine, a few coconuts, and bunches of long bananas.

  • There more food was brought, a roast fish cut in pieces and freshly gathered ginger and palm wine.

  • One old chief turned up early out of the mist and dashed me a bottle of palm wine; he says he wants to dash me a fowl, but I decline, and accept two eggs, and give him four heads of tobacco.

  • The mallam and all his principal people were with him, bringing numerous jars of palm wine.

  • All ranks of people here are passionately fond of palm wine, and drank of it to excess, whenever they had an opportunity, which often occurred, as great quantities of it are produced in the town and its neighbourhood.

  • A most important product called toddy or palm wine is obtained from the flower spikes, which yield a great quantity of juice for four or five months.

  • Palm wine is one of the products of the genus.

  • Immense quantities of palm wine, contained in calabashes, were drank, and a general jollification took place in the orthodox fashion of a coronation.

  • There were also placed in her grave ten dishes, ten jars full of palm wine, ten baskets, ten tusks of ivory, and many other things, among which was the chest of the Oroungous.

  • He had brought with him a jug of palm wine, from which he took a drink from time to time, until he began to feel the effects of the beverage, and became somewhat jolly.

  • From the extremities the gale extends over the body, especially the shins, and the people, who appear in the perpetual practice of scalpturigo, attribute it to the immoderate use of palm wine.

  • It was too early for the daily debauch of palm wine, and the interiors reeked with the odours of nocturnal palm oil.

  • One day after he had been drinking a lot of palm wine at a distant farm, he started home carrying his drum; but having had too much to drink, he did not notice a stick in the path.

  • They gave her plenty of palm wine, foo-foo, and everything she wanted, so that the seven girls became more angry and jealous than before.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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