The grave is then filled up, and on the third day is decorated, and marked by three bamboos, to which young coconuts are fastened for the purpose of engrossing the attention of the ghost.
A yellow beach separates the dark crown of jungle and coconuts from the sea, except at the southern end, which is slightly elevated and rocky.
There were no inhabitants; but the islands were frequented during the north-east monsoon by people from Tenasserim and Arakan, who came for the coconuts that were so plentiful.
Consequently they never approach it on ordinary occasions, nor do they gather coconuts from the place, though the palms grow there thickly.
While some are thus engaged, others take passages in such of the trading vessels as go to Kamorta and other islands, in order to assist in husking coconuts and making kopra, work for which they receive one nut in ten.
Once again on board we found canoes arriving with loads of coconuts and numbers of fowls.
At first they are engaged in husking the coconuts which are to be exported to Calcutta and Moulmein.
They brought us hens and coconuts to sell, but held them very dear, so that we bought few of them.
The staples of food throughout the year are coconuts and pandanus fruit, with bananas, yams, and occasionally other fruits and vegetables in small quantities.
After a fewcoconuts or oranges had been handed up, the old man would come below and shake hands all round.
He generally lives by himself in the jungle, doing no work, but stealing pigs, chickens, andcoconuts from others.
She came from one of those coconut islands that we passed by, and was laden with coconuts and with coconut oil.
Other natives swam the whole way from the land to the ships with coconuts for trade.
These survivors now applied themselves sedulously to tilling the ground, so that in course of time it produced plenty of yams, coconuts and bananas, while they bred hogs and poultry in abundance.
They walked for about 5 miles through groves of trees loaded with coconuts and bread-fruit, and offering the most grateful shade.
He was perpetually charging his officers with stealing coconutsor yams.
Copra and fresh coconuts are the major export earners.
The plantation crops of tea, rubber, and coconutsprovide about one-third of export earnings.
United States of America, the country of his birth, once told him that thunder was the sound of Thai monkeys angrily tossing coconuts from coconut trees in the hope of getting to the bananas?
Sensing that she was being observed, she paused between a salesman's ice chest of coconuts and bottled water and a woman stringing together jasmine rosaries from a small table.
Sago pasta, bread from the artocarpus, mangoes, half a dozen pineapples, and the fermented liquor from certain coconuts heightened our glee.
And I don't think," the Canadian said, "that your Nemo would object to us stashing a cargo of coconuts aboard his vessel?
Coconuts are admirable things, but before we stuff the skiff with them, it would be wise to find out whether this island offers other substances just as useful.
Agricultural production is primarily subsistence and is concentrated on small farms; the most important commercial crops are coconuts and breadfruit.
We had seen neither stream nor well upon the island, and besides, it is probable that the great abundance of coconuts enables them to subsist with very little water.
They were perfectly unarmed and came boldly alongside with a quantity of yams and coconuts for barter; when their stock was exhausted, they returned for more, and, accompanied by others, repeated the visit several times during the day.
With the exception of two or three coconuts nothing was brought to barter with, but they readily parted with bows and arrows, of which they had a very large supply.
The people parted very readily with their weapons and ornaments, also coconuts in abundance, and a few yams and bananas, for strips of calico and pieces of iron hoop.
A person convicted of stealing betel, fowls, orcoconuts shall pay the owner double the value and be fined seven dollars, half of which fine is to be received by the owner.
Then I want something to eat, and there are plenty of coconuts lying about everywhere.
About an hour after the boat had gone, we set to work to get some coconuts to drink, both for ourselves and the boat's crew when they returned.
He quickly piled up the young coconuts in a firm heap, and then stood over me, his own rifle in hand, whilst I knelt on the bamboos and placed my rifle on the top of the heap of coconuts.
The most of them were in even worse condition than I had feared, for it seemed inconceivable to me that they should not have contrived in some way or other to get hold of some coconuts to eat and drink.
Agricultural production, primarily subsistence, is concentrated on small farms; the most important commercial crops are coconuts and breadfruit.
And, ere they proceeded further in the matter, they opened morecoconuts and drank.
The men made free use of coconuts for food and drink.
They were living on coconuts and bananas, since the officers had taken the few remaining rations.
In the house-to-house search, the troops found some booby traps made from coconuts [515] and encountered Japanese entrenched under and between houses in the western sector of the town.
They secured large quantities of provisions which the Filipinos had stored and also a great number of coconuts and sweet potatoes.
Neilson watched him make his way across and when he had disappeared among the coconuts he looked still.
It was one of those knives, made in imitation of the sailor knives brought to the islands a hundred years before by the first white men, used to divide the coconuts in two so that the copra might be dried.
My machine for cutting the coconuts will always remain unused, and so far as I'm concerned street-cars shall never run in the idle streets of Papeete.
I thus gradually collected as many coconuts as produced me a considerable sum.
I did the same; and the apes, out of revenge, threw coconuts at us so fast, and with such gestures, as sufficiently testified their anger and resentment.
I exchanged my coconuts in those two islands for pepper and wood of aloes, and went with other merchants pearl fishing.
He took as many coconuts as he could carry in a net in three trips.
He had to view the tempting tribute laid out before the altar: juicy mangoes and figs and sugar cane, wild berries and young drinking coconuts freshly opened, with the new, cool milk frothing up at the brim.
I planted it with coconuts five years ago, and left a population of maybe a dozen Kanakas to tend them--it's going to be worth money some day.
After the Line Apia struck me as a wonderfully bustling, busy little place, and I took to it like a man does who's had nothing but coral and coconuts to look at till all the world seems nothing else.
In another minute he had shambled down to the boat, and as the sun sank below the line of coconuts on the lee side of Nukutavau, the schooner swept away into the darkness.
Motioning to the white men to follow him, the stalwart young chief led the way to the fale kaupale, or council-house of the village, where food and young coconuts for drinking were brought in and placed before them by the young women.
The man hurries so that coconuts keep falling off the load and have to be replaced.
When Kanag dances, earth trembles, coconuts fall, water from river enters the town, and the fish lap his feet.
Some idea of the extent of the cultivation of coconuts may be gleaned from the fact that in India and the Philippines the trees are counted by the hundreds of millions.
In the early stages of the fruit the white meat is preceded in large part by a delicious milky liquid much used by the natives, but only rarely found in any quantity in the coconuts shipped to our markets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coconuts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
