The eminent sinologue, Aston, has shrewdly pointed out that the term wani (crocodile) may be a corruption of the Korean word, wang-in ❋ Dairoku Kikuchi (1886)
"In the past, people did not believe that an albino or any disabled person could have such an opportunity without sympathy or being favored," Bar'wani is quoted as saying. ❋ Curtis M. Wong (2010)
Though Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete had previously nominated an albino woman to parliament in 2008, Bar'wani's opponents urged their supporters to reject him, claiming his condition prevented him from concentrating. ❋ Curtis M. Wong (2010)
The _wani_ or crocodile thus introduced from India, _via_ Indonesia, is really the Chinese and Japanese dragon, as Aston has claimed. ❋ G. Elliot Smith (N/A)
Among them is a pottery figure of a _wani_ or _makara_ in the form of an alligator, equipped with diminutive deer's horns (like the dragon of Eastern Asia); and its skin is studded with circular elevations, presumably meant to represent the spots upon the star-spangled "Celestial Stag" of the ❋ G. Elliot Smith (N/A)
Ashamed at his presence at her lying-in she was changed into a _wani_ or crocodile (de Visser, p. 139), elsewhere described as a dragon (_makara_). ❋ G. Elliot Smith (N/A)
De Visser gives it as his opinion that the _wani_ is ❋ G. Elliot Smith (N/A)
Wio-wani came right down to the edge of the picture-frame and held up the brick. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
He knew by heart the names of all the painters and their schools, and the name of the great leader of them all who had lived and passed from their midst more than three hundred years ago; he knew that too, a name like the sound of the wind, Wio-wani: the big picture at the end of the studio was by him. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
Wio-wani had turned, and was ambling gently back to the door of his palace, beckoning to the small one to follow him; and there stood Tiki-pu, opening his mouth like a fish to all the wonders that surrounded him. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
Tiki-pu was sobbing, and the tears were running down his cheeks as he stepped out of Wio-wani's wonderfully painted garden and stood once more upon earth. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
One day -- it was five years after the disappearance of Tiki-pu -- he was giving his apprentices a lecture on the glories and the beauties and the wonders of Wio-wani's painting -- how nothing for colour could excel, or for mystery could equal it. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
Presently Wio-wani opened his door and came down the path, as was his habit now each night, to call Tiki-pu to his lesson. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
Just inside the picture-frame stood Tiki-pu, kissing the wonderful hands of Wio-wani, which had taught him all their skill. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
Now and then he would throw a glance across to the bricked-up doorway of Wio-wani's palace, and laugh to himself, thinking how well he had served out Tiki-pu for his treachery and presumption. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
The apprentices joked over it, calling it "Wio-wani's back-door," "Wio-wani's night-cap," and many other nicknames; but Tiki-pu was quite sure, since the picture was so beautiful, that the story must be true. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
"That must be Wio-wani himself and no other!" cried his soul. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
Tiki-pu's old master was beginning to reply; and the lie was still rolling on his tongue when the weight of the brick-bat, hurled by the stout arm of Wio-wani, felled him. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
To add point to his eloquence, he stood waving his hands before Wio-wani's last masterpiece, and all his students and apprentices sat round him and looked. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
Tiki-pu leaned a wet face against the picture and kissed the door in the palace-wall which Wio-wani had painted so beautifully. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
