When she had finished, she andTaro and the Father bowed politely to the old woman.
Then Tarotold which part of the day he liked the best, and Take told which she liked the best.
Nos Sul diweddaf yr oeddynt oll yn fy ystafell i: a phan byddo dadwrdd cyfeddach yn taro ar ein clustiau o ystafelloedd eraill, gallwn ddweyd, "Rhoddaist fwy llawenydd yn ein calon nag yr amser yr amlhaodd eu byd a'u gwin hwynt.
Then she took the stranger to her house, and pigs and fowls were killed, and yams and taro cooked, and a messenger sent to Tuialo to hasten back quickly, and see this gift from the gods.
Sometimes he would give him one, and then my father would cut off a piece for his mother, and take the rest and sell it for taro and bread-fruit.
The taro root looks like a thick, or, if you please, a corpulent sweet potato, in shape, but is of a light purple color when boiled.
Poi is the chief article of food among the natives, and is prepared from the taro plant.
On a May-day of sunshine like the present, the Taro is a gentle stream.
All through the night of Sunday it thundered and rained incessantly; so that on the Monday morning the Taro was considerably swollen.
If, instead of advancing along the left bank of the Taro and there taking up his quarters for the night, Charles had recrossed the stream and pursued the army of the allies, he would have had the whole of Lombardy at his discretion.
The Taro is not less wasteful than any other of the brotherhood of streams that pour from Alp or Apennine to swell the Po.
About eighteen summers passed, and Rai-taro still lived with his foster-parents.
Rai-taro loved his foster-parents, and grew up dutiful and obedient.
Rai-taro had come as a ray of sunshine into the lives of the poor peasants.
Long-before Bimbo could discern any sign of an approaching storm, Rai-taro knew that it was at hand.
Bimbo told many tales of other days, and, finally, of how Rai-taro came to him out of the storm.
He took specimens in taro patches and comments that the ducks probably feed at night and have retiring habits during the day.
McElroy found bitterns in taro patches at Truk in December, 1945.
Coultas found the birds at taropatches and swamps.
At Asor in the Ulithi Atoll, the NAMRU2 party learned that a small rail (possibly of this species) was found at taro patches in the early days of occupation, but that it was apparently eliminated by clearing operations.
Coultas (field notes) obtained specimens in taro swamps; he saw only 4 individuals and remarks that the birds utter harsh cries at night.
It may always persist, however, in the taro patches maintained by the natives.
Coultas (field notes) found the birds intaro patches in the Palaus.
He comments (field notes) that he saw, in all, three birds in taro patch and mangrove swamp habitat.
In the heat of the day, one finds it standing in the shade of a taro leaf quietly viewing the intruder and very reluctant about moving.
I have also found them perched in low trees at the edge of taro swamps.
We had come by this into the market-place, and it chanced that it was a market-day and that the square was thronged with peasants from the Val di Taro who had come to sell their produce and to buy their necessaries.
But from where we sat we could look beyond this, our glance meeting the landscape a mile or so away with the waters of the Taro glittering in the sunshine, and the Apennines, all hazy, for an ultimate background.
And if at first the nobles of the Val di Taro are not to be moved, perhaps after they have had a taste of Messer Pier Luigi's ways they will gather courage out of despair.
The Taro brought me memories not of battle, but of home.
But he might desire me to seek out some of the others of the Val di Taro with such messages as he should send me.
But a chill that he took in his tenth year as a result of a long winter immersion in the icy waters of the Taro laid him at the point of death, and left him thereafter of a rather weak and sickly nature.
He wears female attire, he carries a piece of gold on his neck, he labours like a woman in the taro fields, and he plays his new part so well that he earns the hearty contempt of his fellows.
On the importance of the taro or sweet potato as the staple food of the people, see ib.
For in that case the title of chief has to be formally withdrawn from the dead man and conferred on his successor by a curious ceremony, which includes the presentation of a coco-nut and a taro plant to the new chief.
Some negroes of the Gaboon think that taro and other vegetables never thrive if they are planted after full moon, but that they grow fast and strong if they are planted in the first quarter.
From this point of view it is impossible to regard the assignment of the taro cultivation to women as a consequence of their subordinate position in society: the women themselves do not so regard it.
For the Pelew Islanders subsist mainly on the produce of their taro fields, and the cultivation of this, their staple food, is the business of the women alone.
The Queen of the Clouds is good: she will weep well from heaven upon my yam and taro plots!
The cocoanuts and taro told the same doubtful tale.
We shall not need taro or bread-fruit any more; we may eat stones!
Once he swam the whole distance, braving the sharks, and, reaching the island, hid in a taro swamp till the next night.
Uraschima Taro had a very kind heart and could not bear to see anything that was small and helpless suffer; so he did as the turtle asked him.
Uraschima Taro fondly assured her that nothing in the world should keep him from her, and bade her farewell.
Before they reached the shore, the turtle asked Uraschima Taro how he would like to be shown some of the wonderful beauties hidden under the sea.
So it happened that Uraschima Taro lived in the marvelous palace at the bottom of the sea with the daughter of the sea-god.
The turtle went to announce the arrival of Uraschima Taro to the Princess, and soon returning, led him to her presence.
Early one morning, Uraschima Taro went to haul in his nets, which had been set the night before.
Several years after this, when Uraschima Taro was one day far out at sea, a terrible whirlwind struck his boat and shattered it.
About half an hour before noon, a number of the natives whom we had seen in the morning, again made their appearance, with several large calabashes of water, and a quantity of taro and bread-fruit for our use.
A bushel of candle-nuts, and about the same quantity of taro and patara roots, completed our winter supplies.
The bursting skin of the taro revealed the rich mealy interior, and eloquently proclaimed its readiness to be eaten.
Arthur had selected a favourable location on the margin of the lake near the fish-pond, for a taro and patara patch; and we spent several days in ransacking the neighbouring woods for roots, with which to stock it.
While the cooking was in progress, the Kanakas ground TARO roots for the paste called 'poe'; the girls danced and sang.
In the day-time I roamed about the district, about the TARO fields, in case she might be working there.
The roots of the taro are from six inches to a foot in length, and three or four inches in diameter.
The natives pay the greatest attention to the cultivation of the taro root.
As the sun rose a rich landscape was revealed to us, of cocoa-nut groves, and taro plantations, and sparkling streams, and huts sprinkled about in the distance.
But Urashima Taro lived three hundred years ago, that is all I know; it is written in the village chronicles," persisted the man, who could not believe what the fisherman said.
But the Urashima Taro of whom I have heard is a man who lived three hundred years ago.
It is true that once upon a time a man called Urashima Taro did live in this village, but that is a story three hundred years old.
To the white man yams and taro taste mighty good at first, but eventually he sickens of them.
When a chief paid him a formal visit, bringing a gift of taro root and sitting for hours upon his veranda, the grave courtesy of the ceremony, in which a white man differently constituted might have taken joy, merely bored him unutterably.
The taro looks like a war-club, several feet long, three inches thick, and with a fierce knob.
The fei, the breadfruit, the cocoanut, the mango, and the taro are all about.
The sucking pig and fowl had been baked in a native umu, or oven, on hot stones, and the taro and yams steamed with them.
The banks and cliffs were masses of ferns, the living imposed upon the dead, and hibiscus and gardenias and clumps of bamboo in a dissolving pageant mingled with plots of taro and yams, pineapples and bananas.
They had no taro planted, though there was much about.
The big brass instrument was set upon a table pulled up to the window, while the shrimps were being harvested from the bosky depths of a patch of elephant-eared taro just outside.
It was his favourite hunting and fishing preserve, thattaro patch, the Doc had confided to me once, and the rarity and variety of the specimens captured there were rather remarkable.
When you have a five-cent piece and a taro root before you, and are hungry, which will you take?
Certainly the newcomers played havoc for a time with the taro fields and plantain and banana groves.
It also led to friction between the various factions, just as the tarofields had done.
The taro fields and yam plantations and banana groves were soon roughly divided off in a fair equality, and sticks with plaited palm leaves set up to warn off trespassers from either side.
Ha'o and his men would have kept the others from the surf, just as they would have kept them from the taro swamps.
Meanwhile skirmishes went on almost nightly, and there came a time at last when two of Ha'o's men, in repelling an attempt on the taro fields, were speared and their bodies carried off.
John Gerson had told Blair that other morning, when they came racing up the lagoon in similar brave case, that it lay up the valley near the taro fields.
They had been bed-fellows in misfortune and had shared a common deliverance, and so they were allowed to work beside the others in the taro swamp and to take their allowance of the fruits of the earth.
The atoll men and women had camped in a bunch among the ruined houses, by starting a fire with a borrowed match and proceeding to cook some tarofrom the adjoining fields.
The rescued ones were rebuilding the village on its old site, close to the taro fields.
And when Blair suggested the idea to Ra'a and the others, and offered to assist them in laying out taro fields and yam plantations, he was met in the same way.
Again, certain celebrated ghosts are invoked to promote the growth of taro and yams.
To decide this nice point he takes a boiled taro over which he has pronounced a charm.
Where these things have happened, the people offer boiled taro and a few crabs to the ghosts to induce them to keep clear of the crops and to repose their weary limbs elsewhere than in the tilled fields.
Their staple foods are taro and yams, which they grow in their fields.
And ghosts who have done anything to displease the gods are laid flat on their faces in rows and converted into taro beds.
Similarly in order to cultivate taros and bananas, stones resembling taros and bananas are buried in the taro field or the banana grove, and their magical virtue is reinforced by prayers and offerings to the dead.
He blackened himself all over, exhumed a dead body, carried the bones to a cave, jointed them, and suspended the skeleton over some taro leaves.
Thus to ensure a good crop of taro, the suppliant will hold a bud of taro in his hand and pray, "O Mrs. Zewanong, may my taro leaves unfold till they are as broad as the petticoat which covers thy loins!
For some time after a burial taro is planted beside the house of death and enclosed with a fence.
Yams and taro are fastened to the upper parts of the posts; and below them are hung in circles the skulls and arm and leg bones of dead chiefs, their wives, and kinsfolk, which have been preserved in the manner described.
Then why not use a taro root, or a fowl, or wisps of fibre?
Of course taro and amarylla were the chief vegetables; and of nuts, the well known Brazil species was found everywhere, and to be seen in all dwellings.
That would be all right, if we could have a common understanding between us of how much a taro bulb was worth by the side of a bundle of fibre, and how large the bundle should be to exchange fairly with an armful of Amarylla tubers.
Another species, the Taro (Arum Colocasia, Colocasia esculenta and macrorhizon), is an important esculent root in the Polynesian islands.
The cultivation of taro is hardly a process of multiplication, for the crown of the root is perpetually replanted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taro" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
