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Our wretched little launch, moored to a cocoa-palm, flies a blue ensign, and the Malay policemen wear an imperial crown upon their caps, both representing somewhat touchingly in this equatorial jungle the might of the small island lying far off amidst the fogs of the northern seas, and in this instance at least not her might only, but the security and justice of her rule.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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Every sight was new, for though I have seen the cocoa-palm before, the palm-fringes of the coral islands, with their feathery plumes have little kinship with the dark, crowded cocoa-forests of
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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The cocoa-palm is a source of not a little profit.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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So far as vegetation is concerned, the cocoa-palm and breadfruit are about the only kinds of plant life of importance.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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There is an abundance of hardwood trees, but the breadfruit, banana, and cocoa-palm are the most useful.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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The spot seemed ill adapted to support vegetation of so magnificent a growth, and nothing less hardy than the cocoa-palm could have derived nourishment from such a soil.
The Island Home Richard Archer
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Governor's Villa he played _The Blue Bells of Scotland_ and _God Save the King_, but, hearing the sound from a distance through the interstices of the cocoa-palm fronds in the hot tropical night, I could only think of a Hindoo blowing the pipes in India, the charming of snakes ....
The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922
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On one of the piers of coral at the break of the reef stood a single cocoa-palm; bending with a slight curve, it, too, seemed seeking its reflection in the waving water.
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Having thus drawn the plans of the building, he leaned back against a cocoa-palm and lit his pipe.
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It was breezing up from the south-west, and banyan and cocoa-palm, artu and breadfruit tree, swayed and rocked in the merry wind.
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