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coconuts
«Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.»
Author: Margaret Drabble
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affluence, carpets, coconut, coconuts, furniture, infancy, pad, padded, subsistence, texture, threadbare, utility
«Shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. There's, um, shrimp kebabs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. There's pineapple shrimp and lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich... That's, that's about it.»
Author: Mykelti Williamson
(Actor)
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bake, baked potato, bakes, baking, barbecue, barbecued, boil, broil, broiled, broiling, burger, coconut, coconuts, creole, deep-fried, deep sea, fried, frying pan, gumbo, lemon, Pan, panning, pan out, pepper, peppered, peppers, pineapple, potatoes, potato salad, salad, sandwich, shrimp, soup, stew, stewed, stewing, stir
«The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.»
«'What? Ridden on a horse?''Yes''You're using coconuts!''What?''You've got two empty halves of coconuts and you're banging them together!''So?'»
«Merely going to the temple and offering worship offering a coconut, expecting some reward ? all these are a wrong way of understanding devotion.»
«There is sweet water inside a tender coconut. Who poured the water inside the coconut? Was it the work of any man? No. Only the Divine can do such a thing.»
«There will also be some people who concentrate their attention on the rituals of worship and the offerings being made, such as the breaking of coconuts, the waving of lamps and incense, and the devotion expressed through these rituals. The number of people with this kind of vision and interest will be much smaller than those who concentrate on the decorations, the dances and dramas and all the external paraphernalia associated with the festival.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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associated, break dancing, coconut, coconuts, decoration, decorations, dramas, lamps, paraphernalia, ritual dance