"Nipa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... brand them, as it brands its mules and horses, it promptly gained wide credence. By tactful explanations the suspicions of most of the natives were allayed, but one Moro, notorious as a bad man, barricaded himself, together with five of his friends, three women and a boy, in his house—a nipa hut raised above the ground on stilts—and defied the Governor to enumerate them. Now, if the Governor had permitted such open defiance to pass unnoticed, the entire population of Jolo, always ready for trouble, promptly would have gotten out of hand. So, accompanied by five troopers ...
— Where the Strange Trails Go Down • E. Alexander Powell
... visit, or rather, to rebuild their house burned in Sugbu. They built it better, and roofed it with tile, whereby it will be safer than a roofing of nipa, which is so exposed ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXIV, 1630-34 • Various
... found that the road made a sharp turn to the southward. Beyond was a nipa hut, back of which burnt a small camp-fire. Both hut and fire ...
— The Campaign of the Jungle - or, Under Lawton through Luzon • Edward Stratemeyer
... composed of attap, or nipa grass, on a bamboo framework fixed on and supported by several strong wooden posts, generally the trunks of trees, sunk deep enough in the ground to render them capable of resisting the violent gales of wind common over all the islands ...
— Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines - During 1848, 1849 and 1850 • Robert Mac Micking
... had each his Bo-tree or Buddha-tree. The pippul had been before assumed by the first recorded Buddha; others had the iron-tree, the champac, the nipa, &c.—Mahawanso, TURNOUR'S Introd. ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent |
