Frankly, I supposed "insolence" to be a tapu word.
Na, e mea ana ia, kia huihuia katoatia mai nga Rangatira o te Wakaminenga o Nu Tireni, a te Wenerei i tenei wiki tapu e haere ake nei, kia kitekite ratou i a ia.
A slow disease follows on the eating of tapu fish, and can only be cured with the bones of the same fish burned with the due mysteries.
Mr. Regler asked a native to accompany him upon a voyage; the man went gladly enough, but suddenly perceiving a dead tapu fish in the bottom of the boat, leaped back with a scream; nor could the promise of a dollar prevail upon him to advance.
In the tapu grove he found one fellow stealing breadfruit, cheerful and impudent as a street arab; and it was only on a menace of exposure that he showed himself the least discountenanced.
Many tapus were in consequence absurd enough, such as those which deleted words out of the language, and particularly those which related to women, Tapu encircled women upon all hands.
For the matter of a week we were thus suffered to go out and in and live in a fool's paradise, supposing the king to have kept his word, the tapu to be revived, and the island once more sober.
The cocoa-nut and breadfruittapu works more swiftly.
This hill is tapu, and he who breaks tapu is sure to die.
But when the customary tapu of the Keri-keri river was in force, it caused the mission people great annoyance.
The early missionaries made a dead set against the tapu as a heathen custom, and herein, I think, their policy was a mistaken one.
Indeed, in many of its applications the tapu is strangely similar to the Jewish code.
The tapu descended into the commonest details of daily life, and it reached to the most solemn and obscurest depths of the Maori mythology.
She was tapu to her husband, and if the terrors of the unseen world should not be enough to keep her in the straight path, death was the penalty for the slightest deviation therefrom.
So the tapu Maori was set aside; and, little by little, the tapu Pakeha, or Christianity, replaced it.
But an ariki in this condition was, of course, tapu in much higher degree.
I love the Kaipara, and I am in honour bound to deem Te Puke Tapu on the Arapaoa the acme and perfection of woodland glory—but, in the Hokianga, splendid and magnificent, one forgets other places.
He told me all about the ngarara, how tapu it was, and what a dreadful insult I had unwittingly put upon him and his mate.
Tapu was rarely broken except through accident or ignorance, for dark and gloomy horrors of a spectral kind hovered round it in Maori imagination.
It is an instance of how modern Maori character is driven by two widely different forces, and of how it oscillates between two systems—the tapu Maori and the tapu Pakeha.
In the earliest days of intercourse with Europeans, the tapu was sometimes made useful in business; useful, that is, to the Maori, but certainly not to the trader.
No person might disturb it in any way; no one might fish or bathe in it; nor might a canoe venture upon its surface until the tapu was removed.
The outward and visible sign of this glamour was no more than a few ragged coco-leaf garlands round the stems of the outlying palms; but its significance reposed on the tremendous sanction of the tapu and the guns of Tembinok'.
Now Kooamua could taputhe reef, which was public property, but he could not tapu other people's palms; and the expedient adopted was interesting.
Campbell's Poenamo of a New Zealand girl, who was foolishly told that she had eaten a tapu yam, and who instantly sickened, and died in the two days of simple terror.
Such ruins aretapu in the strictest sense; no native must approach them; they have become outposts of the kingdom of the grave.
Even to light a pipe at it would subject any inferior person (and in many instances an equal) to a terrible attack of the tapu morbus; besides being a slight or affront to the dignity of the person himself.
Then came the tapu tohunga, or priest's tapu, a quite different kind or form oftapu from those which I have spoken of.
It is impossible to explain tapuin a note; we have it as an English word, taboo.
Tapu and tapu and tapu, I know they are every one right; But the god of every tapu is not always quick to smite.
Tapu it is, but the gods will surely pardon despair; Tapu, but what of that?
Suffice it, that a thing which was tapu must not be touched, nor a place that was tapu visited.
By the head of the tapu cleft, with death and fire in their hand, Thick and silent like ants, the warriors swarm in the land.
Even to light a pipe at it would subject any inferior person, or in many instances an equal, to a terrible attack of the tapu morbus, besides being a slight or affront to the dignity of the person himself.
He was in a terrible stew when this pig, killed on tapu ground, and consequently tapu itself, stranded on his beach.
And this thing was tapu in the most deadly degree.
Of course to yarn about New Zealand without saying anything about the custom of Tapu would be on all fours with yarning about Rome and not mentioning the Pope.
To break a tapu was looked upon, by the superstitious natives, as a direct challenge to the greatly dreaded spiritual powers, and was certain to bring swift and awful punishment.
About the year 1870 some six brace of pheasants were turned loose in the Waikato district, and the principal chief put his tapuon them for seven years.
Anything animate or inanimate could be rendered tapu by the will, or even touch, of a man who was tapu himself.
A big chief was tapu, and if he went to war the essence of tapu became doubly distilled, so much so that he could not feed himself, nor even touch food with his hands.
It was by making use of this tapu that the wonderful head of game and fish at present in New Zealand has been reared and acclimatised.
They will take all you will give them, and they will keep the tapu just as long as it suits them.
You will put intapu sticks and bring back what the white man gives you.
To violate the tapu would be bad enough for a brown man; it would be worse for white people.
Or he selects a tree which will fashion into a good canoe; he distinguishes it with thetapu mark, and it becomes his own.
A man quits his dwelling for his day's work: he places the tapu mark on his door, and thenceforward his dwelling is inviolate.
The entire pah is now (1863) in ruins, and has been madetapu by Te Heuhen since its destruction.
I had to go to his house to fetch it myself, as none of his tribe could legally touch it, and he licked it all over before he gave it to me; whether to take the tapu off, or whether to make it more strictly sacred, I do not know.
A complete toleration is equally impossible to Mr Redford, because his occupation would be gone if there were no tapu to enforce.
Everybody will, I hope, admit that this state of things is intolerable; that the subject of Mrs Warren's profession must be either tapu altogether, or else exhibited with the warning side as freely displayed as the tempting side.
When tapu put on anything, no one can touch unless tapu is raised.
That's why tapu would cost much for a pakeha to touch it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tapu" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
