Virgin ___, West Indies

Usage examples of gorda.

Maybe one of these days la Gorda will push him out of the way forever.

He stomped on the floor like a spoiled child while la Gorda stood there laughing.

I was pretty sure that la Gorda had made it, but I said that I did not know.

I was at first forced to divide my attention between la Gorda, the little sisters and the room.

La Gorda glared at me and then turned to don Juan and meekly told him that we had no right to criticize her.

Before leaving Everglade, he said, he telegraphed money for their tickets, and expected to meet 'em at Punta Gorda toward the end of the month.

The train south from Arcadia stayed overnight at Punta Gorda before heading on back north, and the kind conducters let us sleep on the red-fuzz seats after brushing off the goober shells and what not.

Until a few years after the turn of the century, Punta Gorda was the end of the west coast extension of the South Florida Railroad, laid down our way from Arcadia ten years before.

When another warden got axed to death in 1908, near Punta Gorda, that one was laid on Watson too, but every man at Punta Gorda knew who done it.

Ted Smallwood had two hundred and fifty alligator pear trees, reached all the way across Chokoloskee Island, used to ship barrels of them things to Punta Gorda, sent 'em north by railroad, got five cents apiece.

Be certain that the company's security forces scoured Gorda Cay and left no coconut unturned, in case Mr.

Be assured that the flora and fauna of the former Gorda Cay never received such tender loving care as they do now under Disney.

The camp lay only a few hundred yards from the banks of a tributary of the Punta Gorda River.

Bradenton, Sarasota, Venice, Punta Gorda, Fort Myers-all the same.

Gorda Cay was listed as one of the favorite stopovers for international dope runners.