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• A young pig was promptly despatched, and while he was being roasted among hot stones, and while chickens were stewing in cocoanut milk, I persuaded one of the cooks to climb an unusually tall cocoanut palm. Chapter 10
• The cocoanut-palm, date-palm and orange orchards contrasted their rich foliage in the sunshine with the pineapple, banana and the rich soft turf of the mesquit-grass. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
• Some of the Egyptians use a form of hookah called the narghile or nargeeleh -- so named because the water is contained in the shell of a cocoanut of which the Arabic name is nargeeleh. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
• Cocoanuts contain a sweet liquid which is called cocoanut milk. Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency
• She rolls in the long soft grass, where the gold colored snakes are at play; she watches the young monkeys chattering and swinging among the trees, hung by the tail; she chases the splendid green parrots that fly among the trees; and she drinks the sweet milk of a cocoanut from a round cup made of its shell. The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air
• They gathered up scraps of food which had touched his lips, an empty whiskey bottle, a cocoanut from which he had drunk, and even his spittle, and performed all kinds of deviltries over them. YAH! YAH! YAH!
• A rich land-holder will have his rice fields, sugar mill, vino factory, and cocoanut and hemp plantations. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
• The fibrous husk round the cocoanut, called coir, is manufactured into ropes, matting, brushes, and other useful articles. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877
• One of the chief exports of the island is copra, which is the meat of the cocoanut, picked and dried at a certain stage of its growth. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria
• We are minus a chimney on this insinuator, but we are bettin 'on you and the reindeers just the same, to slip one over on us and come shinnin' down a cocoanut-tree with your pack. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old