"Cocoanut" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the types of fowl on the table—that's breeding. And the nutmeg, pepper and cocoanut—that's geography. And everything on the table runs back to geography, and comes to us linked to our lives by dollars and cents—and ...
— The Brown Mouse • Herbert Quick
... cabinet-woods, such as lignum-vitae, fustic, bullet-wood, santa-maria, ironwood, rosewood, &c. The coloured inhabitants are unsurpassed as woodmen, and averse from agriculture; so that there are only about 90 sq. m. of tilled land. Sugar-cane, bananas, cocoanut-palms, plantains, and various other fruits are cultivated; vanilla, sarsaparilla, sapodilla or chewing-gum, rubber, and the cahoon or coyol palm, valuable for its oil, grow wild in large quantities. In September ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various
... of a good deal, Mr. Holmes. I knew that someone had entered the house cautiously from without. I next examined the corridor. It is lined with cocoanut matting and had taken no impression of any kind. This brought me into the study itself. It is a scantily-furnished room. The main article is a large writing-table with a fixed bureau. This bureau consists of a double column of drawers with a central ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Magazine Edition • Arthur Conan Doyle
... with dismay. New York was calling to her, and Brookport held out no attractions at all. She looked down over the side at the tugs puffing their way through the broken blocks of ice that reminded her of a cocoanut candy familiar ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse
... man, I said, and praised the worth Of all who make the cocoanut their ploy; And thought, "I too will have a round of mirth," And threw—and brought one hairy globe to earth. And, turning round, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 • Various
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