"Balsa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 50 islets covered with dense vegetation, coconut trees, and balsa-like trees up to ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... bananas, coffee, cocoa, rice, potatoes, manioc (tapioca), plantains, sugarcane; cattle, sheep, pigs, beef, pork, dairy products; balsa ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... heavily. "They were all wearing Mark 3 or 4. I'm wearing Mark 6," he said, as one might say, "I'm carrying the genuine Cross, not one of the balsa ones." ...
— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... was not of Tourainian stock, for his birthplace was due merely to chance. His father, Bernard Francois Balssa or Balsa, came originally from the little village of Nougaire, in the commune of Montirat and district of Albi. He descended from a peasant family, small land-owners or often simple day labourers. It was ...
— Honor de Balzac • Albert Keim and Louis Lumet
... in these latitudes, and no Indian nation, yet discovered, not even the civilized Mexican, was acquainted with the use of sails in navigation. As he drew near, he found it was a large vessel, or rather raft, called balsa by the natives, consisting of a number of huge timbers of a light, porous wood, tightly lashed together, with a frail flooring of reeds raised on them by way of deck. Two masts or sturdy poles, erected in the middle of the vessel, sustained a large ...
— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott |
