Although they cultivated maize, and mandioc, and plaintains, they wanted every other supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

In the fruit season, pumpkins, jackfruit, cocoa-nut, and melons, nearly take place of the mandioc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

The country abounded in excellent native fruits, and the mandioc furnished never-failing stores of bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

England, and the cakes of mandioc baked with cocoa nut juice, too dear for the common people to afford a sufficiency even of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

The town is pretty well supplied with mandioc flour, jerked beef, and salt fish; but the besiegers prevent all fresh provisions from coming in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

Here the common mode of using it is to cut it in small squares, and boil it in the mandioc pottage, which is the principal food of the poorer inhabitants and the slaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

Brandy is the bribe for which they will do any thing; a dram of that liquor and a handful of mandioc flour being all the food they require when they come down to the port.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

Two principal messes occupied the centre of the table, one, a platter, containing a quantity of mandioc flour, raw; and the other a pile of fish, dressed with oil, garlic, and pimento.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

We also wish to examine the harbour within the funil or passage between the two islands, and into which the river or creek of Nazareth, which supplies Bahia with great part of the mandioc flour consumed there, runs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

Here and there a little space is cleared for the growth of mandioc, which at this season is perfectly green: the wooden huts of the cultivators are generally on the road-side, and, for the most part, each has its little grove of mango and orange-trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

When at any of the houses the bustle of opening the cobwebbed windows, and assembling the family was over, in two or three instances, the servants had to remove dishes of sugar, mandioc, and other provisions, which had been left in the best rooms to dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

Provisions are now so scarce that no bit of animal food ever seasons the paste of mandioc flour, which is the sustenance of slaves: and even of this, these poor children, by their projecting bones and hollow cheeks, show that they seldom get a sufficiency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

Their slaves, for the English are all served by slaves, indeed, eat a sort of porridge of mandioc meal with small squares of jerked beef stirred into it, or, as their greatest luxury, stewed caravansas; and this is likewise the principal food of the lower classes even of the free inhabitants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

The main dependence is the mandioc, or farina, as it is called.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

The small mandioc tubers when boiled are very good and are used instead of potatoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

They drank freely from gourds and pannikins of a fermented drink made from mandioc which were brought out to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

In each stood a house of palm-logs, with steeply pitched roof of palm thatch; and near by were patches of corn and mandioc.    From Wordnik.com.  [IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay] Reference

The camp by this river was in some old and grown-up fields, once the seat of a rather extensive maize and mandioc cultivation by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

The camp by this river was in some old and grown-up fields, once the seat of a rather extensive maize and mandioc cultivation by the Nhambiquaras.    From Wordnik.com.  [VII. With a Mule Train Across Nhambiquara Land] Reference

In the neighbourhood of settlements they make frequent forays into the maize and mandioc fields, and they will lay waste a plantation of sugar-cane in a single night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference

But the other two were in good condition, and, although they ate greedily of the food offered them, they had with them a big mandioc cake, some honey, and a little fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

It was raining heavily—it rained most of the time—and a few minutes previously I had noticed the cacique’s two wives, with three or four other young women, going out to the mandioc fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil] Reference

It was raining heavily -- it rained most of the time -- and a few minutes previously I had noticed the cacique's two wives, with three or four other young women, going out to the mandioc fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

England should preach the doctrine of good works, purified from the poison of the practical Romish doctrine of works, as the mandioc is evenomated by fire, and rendered safe, nutritious, a bread of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference

He was a most kind and hospitable man, who also gave us a duck and a chicken and some mandioc and six pounds of rice, and would take no payment; he lived in a roomy house with his dusky, cigarsmoking wife and his many children.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. To the Amazon and Home; Zoological and Geographical Results of the Expedition] Reference

He was a most kind and hospitable man, who also gave us a duck and a chicken and some mandioc and six pounds of rice, and would take no payment; he lived in a roomy house with his dusky, cigar-smoking wife and his many children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

Until we came actually in sight of this great ranch-house we had been passing through a hot, fertile, pleasant wilderness, where the few small palm-roofed houses, each in its little patch of sugar-cane, corn, and mandioc, stood very many miles apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

He has gathered them at the telegraph stations, where they cultivate fields of mandioc, beans, potatoes, maize, and other vegetables, and where he is introducing them to stock-raising; and the entire work of guarding and patrolling the line is theirs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

Inside were their implements and utensils, such as wicker baskets (some of them filled with pineapples), gourds, fire-sticks, wooden knives, wooden mortars, and a board for grating mandioc, made of a thick slab of wood inset with sharp points of a harder wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

In the lower, the fierce jaguar ranges amidst its forests of graceful palm-trees, the terrible alligator dwells on the banks of its streams, and the anaconda watches for its prey; while bananas, yams, mandioc, and all the fruits of a tropical clime, attain perfection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

The girl and the wrinkled old woman made him sit down at the table, and then placed before him crisp rusks of mandioc flour and steaming coffee whose splendid aroma triumphed over the sordidness of the scene and through the nostrils reached the palate with anticipatory touch.    From Wordnik.com.  [All About Coffee] Reference

A house of palm-logs, with a steeply pitched roof of palm thatch; and near by were patches of corn and mandioc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

We found rice, maize, millet, mandioc, plantains, oranges, pine-apples, and many other fruits.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference

Loanwords with four recognized variant spellings include guacimo, guasima, guacima, huasima (Taino); manioc, manioca, mandioc, mandioca (Tupí); papaw, pawpaw, papaya, papaia.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference