tohunga
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Off they set to the tohunga; I happened to be at his place at the time, and saw and heard all I am about to recount.
From Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by A Pakeha Maori
The tohunga stood back and said, "Have you been in the house?"
From Old New Zealand: being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times by 'A Pakeha Maori'
The voice all through, it is to be remembered, was not the voice of the tohunga, but a strange melancholy sound, like the sound of a wind blowing into a hollow vessel.
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Andrew Lang
Then Kawiti, who is himself a tohunga, threw a rakau for his own path—he threw one for himself and people, and one for the soldiers, and one for the town.
From Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by A Pakeha Maori
The Pakeha Maori was present in a darkened village-hall when the spirit of a young man, a great friend of his own, was called up by a tohunga.
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Andrew Lang
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