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Updated: May 25, 2025
The habit of blackening the teeth, from the age of fifteen, by the juices of certain herbs* and caustic lime, attracted the attention of the earliest travellers; but the practice has now fallen quite into disuse. Among nations very distant from each other, the pimento bears a similar name; among the Haitians aji or ahi, among the Maypures of the Orinoco, ai.
"But you have seen them?" "Oh, yes. They are here." "Then will you oblige me by sending in my name to Baron von Kerber, and saying " "It is impossible. Go to your ship. I speak as a friend." "I am sure you wish to help me," persisted Dick, "but I am carrying a message of some importance " "Ah, from whom?" "From a lady." "Who is she?" "One of the ladies of our party." "Ahi, crudo Amor!
Yet for one night in the year the Hairless One fears the Tiger, as Tha promised, and never has the Tiger given him cause to be less afraid. Where he finds him, there he kills him, remembering how the First of the Tigers was made ashamed. For the rest, Fear walks up and down the Jungle by day and by night." "Ahi! Aoo!" said the deer, thinking of what it all meant to them.
Then Enrica waves her hand toward the palace opposite, a side-door opens piano, Nobili appears, and watches all round to see that no one is near ha! ha! his young eyes didn't spy out my old ones though, for all that Nobili appears, I say, then he puts his hand to his heart, and gives such a look across the street! Ahi! it makes my old blood boil to see it. I was pretty once, and liked such looks.
In truth, this man has been grievously beaten, and his brother has taken the money which the Court decreed! Oh, bunnia, this shall be told for years against you! The jackals have quarrelled, and, moreover, the books are burned. O people indebted to Durga Dass and I know that ye be many the books are burned! Then all Isser Jang took up the cry that the books were burned Ahi!
With a quick gesture she threw her veil aside and lifted her incomparably fair face to his, and he was conscious that he trembled a little, and that his voice shook as he answered evasively: "Thou shouldst know, Ranee." "Ahi! Then am I a happy woman, to think that, though thou wert in open mutiny against the Voice, when I called, thou didst yield.... And thou art ready?" "Am I not here?"
As the serpent prince of the outer darkness, he retains the old characteristics of Vritra, Ahi, Typhon, and Echidna. As the black dog which appears behind the stove in Dr. Faust's study, he is the classic hell-hound Kerberos, the Vedic Carvara. From the sylvan deity Pan he gets his goat-like body, his horns and cloven hoofs.
Pipa caught the half-uttered name, she echoed it with a scream. "Ahi! The signorina! The Signorina Enrica!" Pipa shouted to Adamo on the ladder. "Adamo! Adamo! where is the signorina?" Adamo's heart sank at her voice. On the instant he recalled that cry he had heard upon the stairs. "Where did you see her last?"
In the mythology of the people, Indra, god of light, aided by Vayu and Rudra, wages war with Vritra, who, as god of the clouds, holds back the rain and the light, and appears as opponent of the destructive Ahi.
He had come prepared to ride and he had been forced to walk. The young man frowned. He seemed on the point of swearing, but appearing to think better of it, he replied banteringly, "Por ahi. Por ahi." "What in blazes does that mean?" "Oh, I was just talking the language of the country a language, by the way, toward which you seem most indifferently inclined.
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