The grave was dug among some cocoanut palms out beyond the fetid swamp which lay in those days a crescent of foulness on three sides of the town.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
"That's the milk in the cocoanut, is it?
"A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth"
William Dean Howells
But suppose that the cocoanut man should invent a machine for gathering a year's supply of nuts in a week; suppose the fisherman should devise a scheme to fill his boat with fish in a few minutes; and suppose that as a result of these inventions the business man got so rich that he moved to Paris, and no longer saw his workers, or even knew their names.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair