"Coco" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... el clima es calido y humedo, la vegetacion es tropical. Alli hay arboles que producen maderas preciosas y duras, tales como la caoba, palo de rosa y ebano. Hay tambien otros arboles, tales como la palma de coco, el cacao y la quina. Los cafetos abundan en estado silvestre. En esa zona caliente se cosecha maiz, anil, algodon, cafe, tabaco, cana de azucar, cacao, platanos, pinas y frijoles. Esta region es muy productora de maiz, obteniendose de dos a cuatro cosechas en un solo ano. Colima se distingue ...
— A First Spanish Reader • Erwin W. Roessler and Alfred Remy
... this importance persists only on steep coasts furnishing little or no level ground for cultivation and barred from interior hunting or grazing land; on many coral and volcanic islands of the Pacific Ocean whose outer rim has the most fertile soil and furnishes the most abundant growth of coco palms, and whose limited area only half suffices to support the population; and in polar and sub-polar districts, where harsh climatic conditions set a low limit to economic development. In all these regions the sea must provide most of the food of the inhabitants, ...
— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple
... "No coco—" Tyope stopped and looked at the pictures on the wall. It is improper to mention the names of evil powers or agencies in presence of the symbols of Those Above. So he corrected ...
— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier
... mountain, on which stood three or four native houses, all neatly enclosed by low stone walls formed of coral slabs. In front of the village a crystal stream poured swiftly and noisily over its rocky bed on its way seaward, and on each thickly wooded bank the stately boles of some scores of graceful coco-palms rose high above the surrounding foliage. Except for the hum of the brawling stream and the cries of birds, the silence was unbroken, and only two or three small children, who were playing under the shade of a breadfruit-tree, ...
— "Old Mary" - 1901 • Louis Becke
... anchorage, curved the beach, a pink-white scimitar laid flat. Then the scattering of thatched and stilted huts, the red, corrugated-iron store, residence and godowns of the Dutch trader, the endless Indian-file of coco palms, the abrupt green wall of the mountain.—A twelve-year-old girl, naked as Eve and, I've no doubt, thrice as handsome, stood watching us from the mid-decks in a perfection of immobility, an empty milk tin propped between her brown palms resting ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... a suitable hotel, adding that I was so sorry I had to return to town that afternoon, as I had begun to love the scholastic peace of Oxbridge and valued so much the opportunity of meeting its greatest men. I was bright and poetical in streaks, and every shy—if I may use the expression—hit the coco-nut. Sometimes I glanced at Willie, my pseudo-brother. His face twitched a little, but he never actually gave way to his feelings. The Dean had ceased to ...
— Marge Askinforit • Barry Pain |
