His calendar was unmarked by fast or festival; he had few opportunities of participating in a joyous Eucharist; there was no colour in his raupo chapel, nor variety in his manner of worship.
The bells were chiefly musket barrels, and they hung in actual raupo chapels built by Maori hands!
Before the end of the year it was occupied by Morgan, Preece, and Wilson, who found raupo houses already erected for them by the Maoris.
Before long every village round the lake had its raupo chapel; and Chapman himself pressed on southward to Lake Taupo, where the effects of his labours will meet us later on.
And we scattered the ashes in a raupo swamp, and quietly went home.
The house was a little wooden cottage, built outside the enclosed kainga of raupo wharè, or reed-grass cabins, of the rest of the tribe.
Most of the houses are, of course, the usual raupo wharès, but there are carpentered frame-houses in the kainga as well.
It was thatched with raupo or native bulrush, and had sides and interior partitions of the same material.
Entangled in a foul morass, A raupo swamp, one name we know.
An Ordinance for imposing a tax on Raupo Houses, Session II.
The Europeans were near us in a raupo whare [rush-house].
Another curious article of vegetable food was the punga-punga, the yellow pollen of the raupo flowers.
Moguey, a Maori name for a raupo or flax-stick raft.
In their hands they carried small baskets woven of raupo reeds, containing kai, or food.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raupo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
