Pahs

Leaving in the foo-pahs are what makes it enjoyable ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

August 29, 2009 at 5:21 pm dun worrie! it doan look liek teh kitteh wuz frouwn…dat looks liek ambush arms an pouncing-pahs to meh! ❋ Unknown (2009)

I've been pretty successful there, no major foo-pahs to report. ❋ Grizmom (2006)

The pahs usually occupied a commanding position, and were fenced round with one or more palisades of rough timber. ❋ Robert B. Booth (N/A)

Home, as rendered with so many variations that it's almost impossible to recognize the old place any more; but when they switch to a march, a regular Sousa march full of um-pahs, then I begin to spread myself. ❋ Peter Newell (1910)

But now-a-days about the pahs in idleness they lurk, ❋ Unknown (1902)

Finally, by cutting out all solos, playing all the accompaniments himself, and confining the "Glee Club" to "um-pahs," he got everything figured out except the cornet player; he was beyond pardon; so Max said to him, ❋ Hal [Illustrator] Merrit (1896)

It was like the other pahs, but bigger and stronger, for behind the palisades there were earthen walls into which cannon balls would only plunge without doing any harm. ❋ George Sutherland (1880)

There was much discussion all night long among the neighbouring pahs and villages; but the next day when the Maoris gathered, forty-six chiefs put their marks to the parchment now always known as the treaty of Waitangi. ❋ George Sutherland (1880)

The natives were numerous; on the river banks their villages were frequent, and up on the hills, that rose all around like an amphitheatre, the palisades of their fortified pahs were easily visible. ❋ George Sutherland (1880)

# -- When the last of these pahs was captured an English officer declared that one of the friendly chiefs named Te Kooti was playing false and acting as a spy. ❋ George Sutherland (1880)

# -- Round their villages and pahs they dug up the soil and planted the sweet potato, and the taro, which is the root of a kind of arum lily; they also grew the gourd called calabash, from whose hard rind they made pots and bowls and dishes. ❋ George Sutherland (1880)

They left their pahs, and though a series of skirmishes took place, yet the Waikato rebellion was ended, and Cameron had only to leave a sufficient number of military settlers along the Waikato Valley to make certain that peace and order would be maintained. ❋ George Sutherland (1880)

They gathered muskets and powder; they strengthened their pahs and filled them with potatoes and yams. ❋ George Sutherland (1880)

Maori chief named Ropata, who, clad in European uniform and with the title of Major Ropata, fought stoutly against the Hau Haus, and captured several pahs. ❋ George Sutherland (1880)

The whole district was green; and the figures of Maoris in the grassy streets, their canoes bringing in vegetables to market, their pahs seen far off on the neighbouring hills, gave the scene a charming touch of the romantic. ❋ George Sutherland (1880)

But General Pratt having arrived from Sydney with fresh soldiers, and prepared to sap the pahs and blow them up, the ❋ George Sutherland (1880)

I have tasted of more savoury meats, dressed in coverings of leaves on hot stones, in Maori pahs, or in ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

On this hill there are abundant evidences still left of the native fortifications, but of the large Maori population that once covered the peninsula and lived in these _pahs_, or fortified villages, not a soul remains. ❋ Maturin Murray Ballou (1857)