Lexicographical Neighbors of Muras
Literary usage of Muras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Amazon and Madeira Rivers: Sketches and Descriptions from the Note-book by Keller-Leuzinger (1875)
"THE WILD INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MADEIRA VALLEY. The muras.—Tho Araras. ... The muras
are the laziest of all the lazy Indians of these parts. ..."
2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"After he had burned the Woma Mura-muras he also burned the Kapiri Mura-muras,
Kumari- Puntali ... Out of the ashes of the Woma and Kapiri Mura-muras came ..."
3. Brazil by Errol Lincoln Uys (2000)
"The muras were eager to trade and offer hospitality in return for iron fishhooks.
Amador and Segge were the first white men these families had encountered, ..."
4. Travels in South America: From the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean by Paul Marcoy (1875)
"To these nations, extinguished or driven away by the Portuguese conquest, there
succeeded the nation of muras, whose audacity, ferocity, and love of pillage ..."
5. The Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described by Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Forbes (1854)
"The one behind is a Mura ; the muras being a numerous tribe, ... Indeed the
Portuguese used them as a sort of military police against the muras ..."
6. Brésil by Ferdinand Denis, César Famin (1837)
"Non-seulement les muras ne vivent que de vol et de rapines, mais ils sont méprisés
et persécutés par les autres tribus; et, comme on l'a remarqué, ..."
7. Some South Indian Villages by Gilbert Slater (1918)
"3 To tie up into muras of rice, at half a seer per mura... o 12 IO 28 4 This ...
If we regard 10 muras to be the yield of I acre, and the price Rs. 6-4-0, ..."
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