Do we say coco or cocoa

coco 99 occurrences

Below, a line of bright mist over a swamp, with the coco-palms standing up through it, dark, and yet glistering in the moon.

"Once let a flat-nosed bullet from this little Marlin hard shooter smack him on the coco, and there'll be a funeral in the anaconda family.

It is here too that the coco-palm most flourishes, a tree that supplies not only their food and drink, but also every material necessary for the construction of huts and the manufacture of the various articles which they use.

Thomson mentions that coco-trees growing by the sea-side are wont to incline their stems over the ocean, the waters of which bear their fruit to desert shores and islands, and render them habitable for mankind.

Thus the coco-tree would seem to play an essential part in the ocean vagabondage of Malaysia and Polynesia.

Close to the coco-trees grow clumps of the stunted nipa-palms, which only flourish in brackish waters; their leaves furnish the best roof-thatching.

The roads were good, and were continuously shaded by fruit-trees, coco and areca palms.

The mingled smell of carbolic, hookahs, and coco-nut oil was, I confess, rather overpowering, but when Dr. Russel asked me, "Is this at all interesting to you, or is it merely disgusting?"

Joe stopped at Coco's, ordered coffee, and tried to describe the girls in a notebook.

"Somebody ought to go down and rap Putnam on the coco with a big heavy club!"

This way for the milky coco-nuts!" Rawbon watched curiously.

The natives pointed out the effects of the shot; on the trees, a large branch of a casuarina tree in the sacred enclosure was shot off, several coco-nut trees were cut in two, and the marks of several spent shots still remain on the trees: three natives were killed in this attack.

They rowe too and fro, and haue all their marchandizes in their boates with a great Sombrero or shadow ouer their heads to keepe the sunne from them, which is as broad as a great cart wheele made of the leaues of the Coco trees and fig trees, and is very light.

Their houses are very little, made of the branches of the palmer or coco-tree, and couered with the leaues of the same tree.

All the inhabitants here haue very little homes couered with the leaues of the coco-trees.

Here are very many palmer or coco trees, which is their chiefe food: for it is their meat and drinke: and yeeldeth many other necessary things, as I haue declared before.

The variety of the foliage of the coco-nut, the brab, and others, the manner of their growth, differing according to the different directions taken, and the exquisite grouping which continually occurs, prevent the monotony which their profusion might otherwise create, the general effect being, under all circumstances, absolutely perfect.

The native town extends considerably on either side of the principal avenue, one road leading through the coco-nut gardens, presenting a great variety of very interesting features; that to the left is more densely crowded, there being a large and well-frequented cloth bazaar, besides a vast number of shops and native houses, apparently of considerable importance.

I have accomplished a second drive through the coco-nut gardens on the Girgaum road, a name by which this quarter of the native town is more commonly known; the view thus obtained only excited a desire to penetrate farther into the cross-lanes and avenues; but as I do not ride on horseback, I have little chance of succeeding, since I could not see much from a palanquin, and taun-jauns, so common in Calcutta, are scarcely in use here.

It is coloured dark red on the outside and was stamped with some name that began with COCo-operative Stores, perhaps.

Hey, Navvy, coco!

coco!" called Emett.

Such a computation is impossible when we read of entire towns destroyed not once but 6, 8, and 10 times; of crops swept away by the tempest's fury, and the subsequent starvation of untold thousands; of whole fleets of ships swallowed up by the sea with every soul on board, and of hundreds of others cast on shore like coco shards.

Monsieur Moreau de Jonnès, in his work, says that this hurricane destroyed a coco-palm grove of 5 or 6 leagues in extent, which existed near Ponce.

Coco-palm introduced.

cocoa 477 occurrences

Mrs. Denys, Mrs. Denys, what have you been doing?" He began to laugh, but stopped abruptly as Julian, who was seated near him, with a sudden, clumsy movement, upset a stream of cocoa across the breakfast-table.

Encinctured by the faithful seas Inviolate gardens load the breeze, Where flaunt like giant-warders' plumes The pennants of the cocoa-trees.

Why, just a handful of Labour men and Irishmen and cocoa Liberals, who haven't an Imperial idea in their brains, who think war belongs to the horrors of the past, and think they're doing their duty by what they call 'keeping down expenses.'

Then, when another day dawns, we'll haul in at Magangua, to hunt José Mendoza up and hear what he can tell us about the parachute that fell among his cocoa trees.

What we want first of all is to hear about our friend, Carlos Mendoza, the cocoa planter.

Indeed, one might even have suspected that they had always been accustomed to living in a region where all manner of tropical fruits abounded, coffee and cocoa were raised as crops, and birds of brilliant plumage flew overhead.

Señor Carlos looked surprised at seeing the caravan bringing up before his door, but that was as nothing in comparison with his amazement upon learning how one of the two young Americanos was the same Andrew Bird to whom he had desired his friend, Señor Almirez, to forward the strange message picked up in his cocoa grove one day several months back.

Then there were the patches of tropical vegetation, the fruit trees and the cocoa plantationsall those interesting things which neither of them had ever set eyes on before.

His breakfast consists of bread and butter, and either tea or cocoa.

In the winter he is home by five, and once more has tea, or cocoa, or beer.

Poultice-boot of Cocoa-fibre 54.

Father had made cocoa and creamed potatoesnobody in the world could make creamed potatoes as good as hisand Sylvia and Judith had between them, somewhat wranglingly, made the toast and set the table.

Large plats of the onion, of cocoa, plantain, banana, yam, potatoe, and other tropic vegetables, were scattered all around within five or six miles of a plantation.

Coxswain, get out some lammies for them, and see they have cocoa.

I'll land you and your friend in Mudros Bay if I can, and if I have other orders I'll tranship you.' Feeling very shivery and tired, Ken was escorted below to the genial warmth of the engine-room, where he found Dave already changed, and engaged in putting away a great mugful of hot Navy cocoa.

The coxswain, big Tom Tingle, fished him out a suit of lammies, the warm gray woollen garments which are the regular cold weather wear of the British Navy, and, as soon as he had got into them, put a mug of steaming cocoa into his hands.

Biscuit, butter out of a tin, sardines, and cocoa.

"At Travancore, Koprah, or dried cocoa-nut kernels, is monopolized by government.

of cocoa-nut fibre.

When the leaves of the old plants turn yellow keep the roots quite dry, afterwards turn them out of the pots and bury them in cocoa-nut fibre till January, when they must be re-potted.

of cocoa-nut fibre.

They also make good indoor plants, potted in moss or cocoa-nut fibre in September, or they may be grown in vases of water.

pot, place in a cold frame, and cover with cocoa-nut fibre until the growth appears.

Place the pots on a bed of ashes in a cold frame, put a small inverted pot over the top of the bulb, and cover the whole with cocoa-nut fibre or cinder-ashes to the depth of about 4 in.

Plunge the pots in cocoa-nut fibre and maintain an even temperature of from 65 to 70 degrees.

Do we say   coco   or  cocoa