Intoxicating Polynesian drink

Usage examples of kava.

Her brother, hung over from indulgence in kava, became infuriated at the noise Hina made while beating tapa cloth.

Kasidy hurried outside, Kas pulling a shawl around herself as they stood on the back patio, overlooking a rolling field of brush and wild kava, pale and multishadowed in the soft glow of the moons.

One evening Zenaida announced to Dagon that they were but three days from the city of Kava , but on the morrow they would enter into its kingdom.

Hertzler (Martok), Barry Jenner (Ross), Caroline Kava (Russell), Clyde Kusatsu (Nakamura), Gates McFadden (Crusher), Erik Menyuk (the Traveler), Diana Muldaur (Pulaski), Kate Mulgrew (Janeway), Suzie Plakson (K’Ehleyr), Marina Sirtis (Troi), Brent Spiner (Data), Patrick Stewart (Picard), Wil Wheaton (Wesley), and the quartet of Marc Worden, James Sloyan, Brian Bonsall, and Jon Steuer (who played Alexander at different ages).

But whatever their opinion, all the women talked all the time, in a mellifluous language that he took to be that of Polynesia in general: all the women, that is' to say, except four of the youngest who sat industriously chewing the root from which kava was made and spitting the fibrous pulp into a bowl: Stephen knew that once coconut milk had been stirred in and the mixture had stood for a while it would be ready to drink.

But one afternoon at a kava party, out on one of the arc balconies overlooking Da Vinci's crater lake, she approached him-even more shy and stumbling than he was-so much so that he was forced into the very unusual position of trying to put someone else at ease, finishing sentences for her and the like.

Some people just extract the kavain from the kava, but I don't think that's right.

Some people just extract the kavain from the kava, but I don’t think that’s right.

Sax sat in the seminar rooms after the weekly roundups, looking at the coffee cups and the rings of brown coffee and black kava stains on the battered wooden tabletops, the white shiny blackboard screens covered with schemata and chemical diagrams and big looping arrows pointing to acronyms and alchemical symbols that Michel would have loved, and something inside him would glow till it hurt, some parasympathetic reaction spilling out of his limbic system—now this was science, by God, this was Martian science, in the hands of the scientists themselves, working together for some collective goal that made sense, that was for the common good.

Sax sat in the seminar rooms after the weekly roundups, looking at the coffee cups and the rings of brown coffee and black kava stains on the battered wooden tabletops, the white shiny blackboard screens covered with schemata and chemical diagrams and big looping arrows pointing to acronyms and alchemical symbols that Michel would have loved, and something inside him would glow till it hurt, some parasympathetic reaction spilling out of his limbic system-now this was science, by God, this was Martian science, in the hands of the scientists themselves, working together for some collective goal that made sense, that was for the common good.

In the matter of grog, yaqona, kava, beer, as in little else, the Indo­-Lilliputians and Elbees were as one.