bread-fruit

“For months he has sailed about the islands in wretched trading schooners and stray steamers almost worse than sailing vessels, with such food as he could get, or lived on coral atolls eating bread-fruit and yams, all the time working hard with his pen,” Henry told Lizzie.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

“For months he has sailed about the islands in wretched trading schooners and stray steamers almost worse than sailing vessels, with such food as he could get, or lived on coral atolls eating bread-fruit and yams, all the time working hard with his pen,” Henry told Lizzie.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

I am on familiar terms with cocoa-nuts, mangoes, and bread-fruit trees, but I think I like the negresses best of anything I have seen.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

But the great good is this; much bread-fruit and bananas have been destroyed; if this be general through the islands, famine will be imminent; and Whoever

Vailima Letters 2005

During the time I resided in this place, I enjoyed a luxury I have never met with either before or since — the true bread-fruit.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Passing among bread-fruit and guavas into a palm grove of exquisite beauty, we came suddenly upon a lofty wooded cliff of hard basaltic rock, with ferns growing out of every crevice in its ragged but perpendicular sides.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

The jak trees (artocarpus incisa), near of kin to the bread-fruit, and the durion, flourish round all the dwellings.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

The forest was enlivened by many natives bound for Hilo, driving horses loaded with cocoa-nuts, bread-fruit, live fowls, poi and kalo, while others with difficulty urged garlanded pigs in the same direction, all as presents for the king.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Every village consists of such houses as I have described before, grouped, but not by any means closely, under the shade of cocoa-palms, jak, durion, bread-fruit, mango, nutmeg, and other fruit-trees.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

There are about six hundred and twelve Europeans in the town and on Pinang, but they make little show, though their large massive bungalows, under the shade of great bread-fruit and tamarind-trees, give one the idea of wealth and solidity.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004