I do not think that the words e rupe sumptum, vel rupe constans saxeum palatium, are at any rate materials, out of which a proper name could be constructed.
Rupe one day ordered his white man to go down to a creek, which ran into the Waitara near the Paihau pa, and clear out the little dam in which the household were accustomed to steep their Indian corn, their kaanga-pirau.
As Rupe and his pakeha Bent and their companions marched slowly into the marae of the war-chief's camp, their eyes on the ground, they were welcomed with the ancient ceremony of the powhiri.
Rupe told the white man that he had feared he was dead.
Rupe was furiously angry when he heard the story of the Waikato's attack on his pakeha.
The white man worked for his master Rupe all that year, digging and planting, carrying wood and water, and performing, in fact, the duties of a household slave.
Ropes were made of stout supplejack vines, and with Rupe and his family the white man lowered the canoe down the high bank to the water-edge.
Rupe hauled it up, lowered the line again, and Bent tied it round his body below the arms.
From Rupe Atenea out across the plain to where the eye lights upon the white loops of the road to Porto Empedocle one might almost say that every object which is not a temple or a fragment of a temple is an olive tree.
Penrod called, and performed upon Sam the knuckle operation which he had himself just undergone, Sam submitting mechanically, his eyes fixed with increasing uneasiness upon Rupe Collins.
That would have revealed the fact that there was a certain Rupe Collins whose father was a foreman at the ladder works.
The struggle increased in primitive simplicity: time and again the howling Rupe got to his knees only to go down again as the earnest brothers, in their own way, assisted him to a more reclining position.
From the further end of the courtyard of the Caffarelli Palace one can look down upon part of the bare cliff of the Rupe Tarpeia.
Rupe hoisted mat-sails over his canoe and thus made the winds serve him.
How this was done, how Rupe took his sister back to the old chief, and how civil wars arose are not all these told in the legends of the Maoris.
Sir George Gray relates a legend in which Maui-mua orRupe is recorded as having carried his sister and her child to one of the new lands, found in his long voyage, where dwelt an aged relative, of chief rank, with his retainers.
This is a modern version ofRupe changing himself into a bird.
Meanwhile Rupe or Maui-mua, a brother of Hina-uri and Maui, grieved for his sister.
This is a legend derived from the myths of many islands in which Lupe or Rupe (pigeon) changed himself into a bird and flew after his sister Hina who had been carried on the back of a shark to distant islands.
Rupe assumed the form of a bird and flew down to this world in which he had found his sister.
The light of the fire outside flashed on their faces, as they stooped to enter the elm-bark tent, and in the foremost I recognized the hideous Rupe Falardeau, Junior.
Rupe was too valuable to be shot down for missing a man with a knife.
The gang was led by Rupe Falardeau, a dangerous man, whether drunk or sober, and one whose antecedents were recorded in blood.
Such a canoe-steersman asRupe never was known before or since: he knew every rock in every rapid from the Ottawa to the Columbia.
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