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"Yes," observed the private, "but of what use is it when the night is so dark?" As he said this he looked upward to stare into the darkness. At that moment a prolonged streak of lightning flashed, followed by a terrific roar. "Nakú! Susmariosep!" exclaimed the private, crossing himself and catching hold of his companion. "Let's get away from here." "What's happened?"
"Believe me, Chichoy, of Quiroga the Chinaman! I heard it in the office." "Nakú, it's certain then," exclaimed the simpleton, believing it at once. "Quiroga," explained the clerk, "has a hundred thousand pesos in Mexican silver out in the bay. How is he to get it in? Very easily.
"Nakú!" he exclaimed, "sacks and sacks of powder, sacks of powder under the floor, in the roof, under the table, under the chairs, everywhere! It's lucky none of the workmen were smoking." "Who put those sacks of powder there?" asked Capitana Loleng, who was brave and did not turn pale, as did the enamored Momoy.
Caged, the little creature will remain silent and die. Poets often wait vainly in the dew, from sunset till dawn, to hear the strange cry which has inspired so many exquisite verses. But those who have heard found it so mournful that they have likened it to the cry of one wounded suddenly to death. Hototogisu Chi ni naku koe wa Ariake no Tsuki yori kokani Kiku hito mo nashi.
The house was thrown into an uproar, the lieutenant of the guard came, and after enjoining secrecy upon everybody, they sent me away. But " "But but " stammered the trembling Momoy. "Nakú!" ejaculated Sensia, gazing at her fiancé and trembling sympathetically to remember that he had been at the fiesta.
Sha and nakû, i.e., 'the one over the sacrifice. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, vii., 174, note. IIR. 32, no. 3. 'A spear carrier of Marduk' occurs in contract tablets. Dupsharru. Daianu. E.g., IIIR. 48, no. 6, ll. 26, 27. Shangu = priest; makhu = great. See above, p. 657. Delitzsch, Assyr. Handwörterbuch, p. 149b. See pp. 356 seq.
Malecon: A drive along the bay shore of Manila, opposite the Walled City. Mestizo: A person of mixed Filipino and Spanish blood; sometimes applied also to a person of mixed Filipino and Chinese blood. nakú: A Tagalog exclamation of surprise, wonder, etc. narra: The Philippine mahogany.
In Manila, in a confectionery near the University much frequented by the students, the arrests were thus commented upon. "And have they arrested Tadeo?" asked the proprietess. "Abá!" answered a student who lived in Parian, "he's already shot!" "Shot! Nakú! He hasn't paid what he owes me." "Ay, don't mention that or you'll be taken for an accomplice. I've already burnt the book you lent me.
There were diadems, necklaces of pearls and diamonds, so that some of the girls could not withhold a nakú of admiration, and Sinang gave a cluck with her tongue, whereupon her mother pinched her to prevent her from encouraging the jeweler to raise his prices, for Capitana Tika still pinched her daughter even after the latter was married. "Here you have some old diamonds," explained the jeweler.
"Nakú, a metaphysician, but a rather premature one! So you can't conceive of it, eh? Sed patet experientia and contra experientiam negantem, fusilibus est arguendum, do you understand? And can't you conceive, with your philosophical head, that one can be absent from the class and not know the lesson at the same time? Is it a fact that absence necessarily implies knowledge?
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