This stranger, to the perceptions of the proprietor of the cocoanut shy, appeared to be talking to himself, and Mr. Huxter remarked the same thing.
The first to appear was the proprietor of the cocoanut shy, a burly man in a blue jersey.
There is a kind of cocoanut bar, flat and corrugated, that may be had at most crossroads.
His book, by his rapt attention, must deal with far-off islands and with waving cocoanut trees.
It was indirectly owing to the fan that Lo-Keong told me of the money my father made in China, and through the fan, when the packet is restored, he intends to give the money to me.
If this book were judged upon its merits it should obtain a popularity even greater than "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.
Oh humbug," said the Major contemptuously "I don't believe in that foolish rhyme a bit.
When Hop Sing was in favour, Forge went to China, but the Mandarin refused to help him to get the money which was under the control of Lo-Keong, unless the fan was obtained.
You'll find my will is stronger," said Rupert coolly.
A woman," the Marquis took the note from the table, and passed it to Mrs. Ainsleigh.
But I wish you would look round for him, Clarence, and watch him.
He couldn't have valued it much, if he lost it so often.
Of course all her friends came with the usual wreaths of flowers, but owing to the tragic circumstances of her death, many strangers were present.
Indeed, I know of no thin potation more truly refreshing before breakfast, than a cooling draught of cocoanut wai.
As the daylight guns from the Port of Papeetee came booming and echoing among the mountains, we sprang to our feet, swallowed a cooling draught of cocoanut milk, enjoyed another bathe in the stream, and then trudged gaily back to town.
But in the little plain apartment which they entered, not as before by way of the throne room, but by a secret corridor with cocoanut matting and narrow frosted windows, the Pope stood waiting, like a simple priest, in a white woollen cassock.
One-half cup desiccated cocoanut soaked in one cupful of milk, two eggs, one small cupful of sugar, butter the size of an egg.
Whites of three eggs and some sugar beaten together not quite as stiff as usual for frosting; spread over the cake, add some grated cocoanut, then put your cakes together; put cocoanut and frosting on top.
Take two tablespoonfuls of grated cocoanut and half as much "French candy;" work them both together with your hand till the cocoanutis all well mixed in it.
A cup of grated cocoanutput into the recipes of Cracker Pudding and Bread Pudding, makes good cocoanut pudding.
Make kisses, cocoanut drops, and such like, the day before they are wanted.
Lastly, stir in the grated cocoanut swiftly and lightly.
Take the cream while soft, add fresh grated cocoanut to taste; add sufficient confectioners' sugar to mold into balls and then roll the balls in the fresh grated cocoanut.
If preparedcocoanut is used, take one and a half coffeecupfuls.
Peel and slice a dozen oranges, grate a cocoanut and slice a pineapple.
Divide the whipped eggs into two portions; into one stir the cocoanut with half the sugar; into the other the almond paste with the rest of the sugar.
The cocoanut should have been pared and thrown into cold water before it was grated.
Whip the sugar into the stiffened whites; then the corn-starch, the cocoanut and rose-water last.
A tablespoonful of freshly-ground cocoanut should be taken at breakfast until the cure is complete.
Cocoanut is an old and very efficacious remedy for intestinal worms of all kinds.
The dessicated cocoanut is useless for curative purposes.
It is used in the treatment of contusions and sprains and is edible when mixed withcocoanut milk.
Before applying to the affected surface the leaf is heated to make it more flexible and coated with a thin layer of cocoanut oil or other fatty substance.
The Filipino "herb-doctors" concoct an oil of manungal that in reality contains none of the ingredients of the seeds; it is simply cocoanut oil in which chips of the wood have been soaked.
Cocoanut milk has an agreeable taste and may in some cases take the place of cow's milk.
The buyo leaf plays a very important part in the therapeutics of the infant of the Philippines: in its indigestions, colics and diarrhoeas the heated leaves are applied to the abdomen previously anointed with hot cocoanut oil.
The bark and the leaves of both the red-flowered and white-flowered varieties are boiled in cocoanut oil and the product is used for inunction in itch and other skin diseases.
In Concan the juice of the leaves mixed with cocoanut oil is used as a liniment in rheumatism.
The juice of the leaves mixed with cocoanut oil is used in the form of eardrops in suppurative otitis.
A big cocoanut frond serves as an improvised broom in a dusky hand, and the central step is carefully swept before the stranger, with respectful salaams and gesticulations, is invited to sit down.
The waving cocoanut trees of Senana, the principal island of the Soela-Bessir group, kiss the blue water with sombre plumes, bowed down by the wealth of heavy fruit lying in green and golden clusters between frond and stem.
Plumy cocoanut and tremulous tamarind wave over the last resting-places of these exiles from the Holy Land of the Celestial Empire, for the second generation established on an alien soil is forbidden to seek burial in China.
The sword and cocoanut now form part of the heraldic arms belonging to Makassar.
I have seen stone pipes from Gambia, shaped like the letter U consisting each of one solid flint, hollowed through, also hookahs made by sailors with cocoanut shells.
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.
Again the tents were pitched beside the Morai under the cocoanut groves.
Meanwhile the masts of the Resolution, guarded by {206} only six marines, were exposed to the warriors of the other village at the cocoanut grove.
That day sailors were landed for water and set fire to the village of the cocoanut groves to drive assailants back.
At her bidding he made a tiny hut of cocoanut branches, a clumsy canoe good enough to fish with, and nets from the sinnet she taught him how to twist out of cocoanut husks.
Would they consider a monthly arrangement on a reduced charge, giving Satterlee the best room in their cottage, and pledging themselves that he should never quit the confines of their three-acre cocoanut patch?
Of course, it wasn't much of a house, being a sort of beehive-shaped concern with a thatched roof a foot thick and open all round the sides when the cocoanut curtains was hysted.
A Scanlon brother could be useful, too, in climbing cocoanut trees, rubbing sticks together when the matches were lost, and in guiding them to noble waterfalls far hidden in the forest.
He was given to playing the flute in the stern of an old whaleboat, which was drawn up near the station with a cocoanut shelter over it.
A pig rooted and rustled among a heap of cocoanut shells.
He was a fine man to look at, about sixty years of age, very portly and pleasant spoken, and everything he said sounded important, even if it was only about the weather or why cocoanut milk always gave him cramps.
We had much difficulty in getting a sufficient supply of plaited cocoanut leaves for the walls and roof of our house.
Accordingly, a cocoanut tree was transformed into a flagstaff, the British flag was run up, and duly saluted with cheers and volleys, and a picture of the proceeding adorns the captain's book as frontispiece.
Our mate, who had his fowling-piece with him, saw a very pretty parrot on a cocoanut tree.
We strolled about and visited the large cocoanut plantation belonging to the society.
When we came upon the last group, I asked for a cocoanut in exchange for beads; the man was giving it to me, when a young man stepped forward and sent him back.
He orders the milk and pulp of onecocoanut to be taken early in the morning, fasting, no purgative or confinement to the house being required.
Professor Paresi, of Athens, when he was in Abyssinia, happened to discover that ordinary cocoanut possesses vermifuge qualities in a high degree.
We struck into roads fringed with native houses on piles, shadowed by the everlastingcocoanut palms heavy with young nuts.
About four and a half hours after Adam was turned out of the garden of Eden he felt hungry, and so, bidding Eve take care that her head was not broken by the descending fruit, shinned up a cocoanut palm.
The grass-sheds had disappeared, and Parlay's house rocked drunkenly, Because the wind blew lengthwise along the atoll, the house had been sheltered by the miles of cocoanut trees.
Up the beach, on the north shore, where the fringe of cocoanut palms concealed the village, he could see the black bows of the canoes in the canoe-houses.
Here and there in the cocoanut trees people had lashed themselves.
Uiliami blew the whistle suspended on his broad bare chest by a cord of cocoanut sennit.
Later, a German company had attempted a cocoanut plantation, which was abandoned after several managers and a number of contract labourers had lost their heads.
He also arrived in a hurricane, the giant waves of which deposited him and yacht and all in the thick of a cocoanut grove three hundred yards beyond the surf.
He chopped open a drinking cocoanut with his heavy sheath-knife and drained the contents.
Abreast of it, along the atoll, travelling with equal speed, was a stiff bending of the cocoanut palms and a blur of flying leaves.
That night, with cocoanut calabashes, each of quart capacity and tightly stoppered, he led Grief down to the water from the peninsula side of the Big Rock.
A loud crackling and smoke rising through the cocoanut trees told the story.
The cultivation of the cocoanut tree and the production of the valuable cocoanut oil are two important Cingalese occupations.
The maona wore a breech-clout and a coat of cocoanut oil freshly laid on, but not sand, as in the Olympiads.
I drank my share of it in the cinema cafe, and after that was conscious only vaguely of going to the Cocoanut House garden, where Miri and Caroline and Maraa danced nude under the trees by the light of the full moon.
It had a very large garden behind, with tall cocoanut trees, and the finest rose-bushes in Tahiti.
We ate in the old day the simple things at hand, fish and breadfruit, feis and cocoanut milk, mangoes and bananas and oranges.
For dinner we had a broiled fish, which I myself cooked on stones outside the house, and tuparo, mountain feis steamed and mashed into a golden pulp, with cocoanut cream.
On the red-hot stones of the umu the fish grew golden, and sent forth a sweet odor which exceeded in deliciousness even the smell of monoi, the ointment of the oil of the cocoanut and crushed blossoms.
These were tied to the rocks, and the ropes of cocoanut sennit in the course of hundreds of years had worn the stones away.
Our way was through an old and dark cocoanut grove, a bare trail, winding among the trees, and ending at the beach.
When I went down the rue de Rivoli that night to the Cercle Militaire, he had drifted into the Cocoanut House, and was sitting on a fallen tree telling of the storm to a woman in a scarlet gown with a hibiscus-blossom in her hair.
Butscher added many francs to my bill by pouring me another bottle of Pol Roger, 1905, which after several days of cocoanut juice took on added delight.
We had raw fish cut up, with bowls ofcocoanut sauce.
It was delicious, and seemed as safe as cocoanut milk.
The fish was steeped in lime-juice, not cooked, and flavored with thecocoanut sauce and wild chillies.
He was long and meager, as dry as a cocoanut from the copra oven, as if all the juices of his body and soul had been expressed in his years of cooking the sea-centipedes for which he was celebrated.
And though unprovided either with compass or cutlass, it was determined to push some way along the plateau, marking our direction by the laborious process of bending down, sitting upon, and thus breaking the wild cocoanut trees.
Then up by a winding path scarce accessible to a horse for steepness, to the other side, and the open cocoanut glades of the plantation.
Bake in jelly-cake pans, with icing andcocoanut between.
Grated cocoanut can be used instead, by preparing as follows: one large cocoanut grated, two pounds of loaf sugar.
Bake in jelly-cake pans, and between each layer put fruit jelly, icing of chocolate and cocoanut each.
Then grate up two large cocoanuts, and after icing each layer, sprinkle grated cocoanut on it.
When the last coat of icing is put on, sprinkle the prepared cocoanut all over the cake, to give it a frosted appearance.
Lastly, stir in the cocoanut well, and put between the cakes as you would jelly.
Bake in cakes an inch thick and spread with icing, having grated cocoanut stirred in; pile one on another, allowing a little time for drying off.
The light was fair on the blue hills; the sea-breeze fluttered the leaves of the cocoanut trees and waved the long thick leaves of the banana.
While the young men were doing this, the old men at home were all day beatingcocoanut husk, to separate the fibre for making sinnet.
Cocoanut shells were our substitute for flint glass, and I like it very well; especially when cocoanut milk is the refreshment to be served in them.
Sale was always trying to steal away with our canoe and leave the other four, probably for six hours, in an empty, leaky boat, without so much as an orange or a cocoanut on board, and under the direct rays of the sun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cocoanut" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
