cocoanut-tree

High up in the cocoanut-tree Piang built his couch.

The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart

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 Florence Partello Stuart

On the sandy beach, with his back against a cocoanut-tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him, Smith sat waiting, never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer.

Cabbages and Kings 1904

He came; he spake his strange jargon of the asphalt and the cafés; he sat under the cocoanut-tree, and vanished.

Cabbages and Kings 1904

Here an iron pipe in the mountain-side tapped subterranean waters, and a hollowed cocoanut-tree gave them exit upon the sand where salt waves flowed up to meet them.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

Upon her neck, rounded as a young cocoanut-tree, was a necklace of pearls that an empress might have envied her, had they been real and not the synthetic gift of some trader.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

Yet all these people remained curious as to what might be beyond the distance, and a hundred years ago were fitting out exploring expeditions to search for Utupu, a Utopia from which the god Tao introduced the cocoanut-tree.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

In Hana-teio a man in a cocoanut-tree gathering nuts was ordered to come down by Great Night Moth who was passing on a boar hunt.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

There was a little canoe under a noble cocoanut-tree on the shell-strewn and crab-haunted coral beach, the roots of the palm partly covered by the salt water, and partly by a tangle of lilac marine convolvulus.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

You could not whisper anything to a cocoanut-tree but that the entire island would know it to-morrow.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900