Mele

The author of the mele was a Hawaiian named John Meha, who died some years ago. ❋ Nathaniel Bright Emerson (1877)

-- The composer of the music and the author of the mele was a Hawaiian named John Meha, of the Hawaiian Band, who died some ten years ago, at the age of 40 years. ❋ Nathaniel Bright Emerson (1877)

Some parts of this mele, which is a love-song, have defied the author's most strenuous efforts to penetrate their deeper meaning. ❋ Nathaniel Bright Emerson (1877)

_poo-pua'a_, leader of the olapa, calls the mele (_kahea i ka mele_) -- that is, he begins its recitation -- in a tone differing but little from that of ordinary conversation, a sing-song recitation, a vocalization less stilted and less punctilious than that usually employed in the utterance of the oli or mele. ❋ Nathaniel Bright Emerson (1877)

Hawaiian mumbling and chanting a toothless mele of Bella and ❋ Unknown (2010)

"The priest Eoppo sang a long mele about Kahekili's mother and his mother's mother, and all their mothers all the way back to the beginning of time," Kumuhana resumed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Barefooted, with no adornment of femininity, clad in a shapeless shift of much-washed cotton, with age-withered face and labour-gnarled hands, she cringed before him and crooned a mele in his honour, and, still cringing, put the lei around his neck. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He did not know me, and when Ahuna told him who I was, he grovelled at my feet, almost clasping them, and mumbled a mele of all my line out of a lipless mouth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pkm you will have a wonderful family enjoying a nice christmas spirt mele kalikimaka i wish kathy and i were with then aloha mahalo sensible Cape Coral FL ❋ Unknown (2009)

And while she chanted her mele, the old crone's shrewd fingers lomied or massaged Bella's silk-stockinged legs from ankle and calf to knee and thigh. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Both Bella's and Martha's eyes were luminous-moist, as the old retainer repeated the lomi and the mele to Martha, and as they talked with her in the ancient tongue and asked the immemorial questions about her health and age and great-great-grandchildren — she who had lomied them as babies in the great house at Kilohana, as her ancestresses had lomied their ancestresses back through the unnumbered generations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The one-week boarding Explorations program centers on foundational themes and activities such as Hawaiian values, mele, hula, Hawaiian crafts, and much more. ❋ Misty May-Treanor With Jill Lieber Steeg (2010)

May God bless you for the effort as it blesses others. carmen mele ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well, we'll see if we can make the mele kalikimaka (ph) happen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And not only that, in his first post on the story, Greg Sargent tried to spin the Clinton's anger and their slam of MSNBC as a put up job to gain political advantage, setting off a mele of Clinton bashing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lângă muntele Sinai, in Mănăstirea Sfântei Catarina, am descoperit comoara tuturor cercetărilor mele. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

What was forgotten in the hysterical of the media mele was that President Chavez had said that the Venezuelan government would buy Santander's Banco de Venezuela holdings and place the network of high street banks "at the service of Venezuelans." ❋ Unknown (2008)

No gas stov so dey 8 out ebry mele frum Sundai on. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In nopti precum aceasta, am avut-o in bratele mele ❋ Veruscio (2008)