The pernicious example of the dominators in surrounding themselves with servants and despising manual or corporal labor as a thing unbecoming the nobility and chivalrous pride of the heroes of so many centuries; those lordly airs, which the natives have translated into TILA ka casTILA, and the desire of the dominated to be the equal of the dominators, if not essentially, at least in their manners: all this had naturally to produce aversion to activity and fear or hatred of work.
"The Indolence of the Filipino"
Jose Rizal
4. Taema and TILA fainga, or TILA the sportive, were the goddesses of the tattooers.
"Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before"
George Turner
Don Alfonso's smile seemed to say: "I know why you are drinking that TILA."
"Maximina"
Armando Palacio Valdés