Kiha-wahine then went to the island Maui and dwelt in a deep pool near the old royal town of Lahaina.
When he dove into the sea Kiha-wahine went down after him and tried to find him in the small and large coral caves, but could not catch him.
Kiha-wahine went to Poliahu, but could not fill the water-jar.
Kiha-wahine and the rest of the dragons could not stand the heat even a little while, for the fire caught them and killed a large part of them in that place.
I nodded, with eyes and face mirthful of appreciation, and Prince Akuli, with another apprehensive glance at the old wahine and her half-made hala lei, returned to his tale of the bones of his ancestors.
His had been an error in timing the rise and subsidence of a wahine wave.
In the wahine surf it was boisterous enough for good swimmers.
He clapped his hands, and the old wahine tottered toward him in an excitement of haste to serve.
Prince Akuli shot an apprehensive glance sideward to where, under the shade of a kukui tree, an old wahine (Hawaiian woman) was just settling herself to begin on some work in hand.
A wahine e oe, kanaka e au; He mau alualu ka ha'i e lawe.
Footnote 319: Wahine pii ka pali, Haina-kolo, a mythical character, is probably the one alluded to.
The distinction of sex in the other branches, is generally designated by tane and wahine postfixed to the relation; e.
A lohe ke Alii wahine i keia mau olelo, hoi aku la na elele a hiki i o Aiwohikupua.
A no kuu lohe ana ae nei he wahine ka iala, oia ko'u hiki mai nei ia Kauai nei, a komo mai la i ko aha lealea e ke Alii, oia la.
Ia Laieikawai ma ko laua wahi me kana kane, he mea mau ia Kaonohiokala ka iho pinepine mai ilalo nei e ike i ka pono o kona mau kaikuahine, a me kana wahine opio (Laielohelohe), ekolu iho ana i ka makahiki hookahi.
No ke mea, manua aku o kona lohe ana i keia mau mea, ua olelo paa o Aiwohikupua, aole e lawe i kekahi wahine o keia mau mokupuni i wahinemare nana; ua olelo oia, aia kana wahine makemake noloko o Moaulanuiakea.
Nearly all the people of the valley are outside, having come to see the wahine haole: only one white woman, and she a resident of Hawaii, having been seen in Waimanu before.
It was really unpleasant, not only to hear a Babel of talking, of which, judging from the constant repetition of the words wahine haole, I was the subject, but to have to eat under the focussed stare of twenty pair of eyes.
The game is one of love, a wahinetaking in her hand a small ball, with which she endeavors to strike the kanaka she desires, chanting at the same time a verse of a song, and if successful he becomes her immediate lover.
He inquired for the wahine haole (foreign woman), and presented his bit of wood, saying that he would sell it for a dollar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wahine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dame; dowager; gentlewoman; girl; lady; lass; matron; squaw; woman
