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Mosquito Coast

noun

  1. a coastal region in Central America bordering on the Caribbean Sea, E of Honduras and Nicaragua.


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Example Sentences

Few American novels have addressed these questions more directly than The Mosquito Coast.

He has brought civilization to the Mosquito Coast, he reasons, so he can destroy it too.

He has dreams, in other words, of turning the Mosquito Coast into Massachusetts.

These were afterwards joined by agents of the Chartered Company which exploited the pearl fisheries of the Mosquito coast.

The islands along the Mosquito coast were occupied by the company, and a project was formed to colonize the mainland.

A seaboard stretching away to the south lay open before him,—now known as the Mosquito Coast.

Many and unmistakable signs told me that I was now skirting the dread "Mosquito Coast."

Down the Mosquito Coast they passed like a devouring flame, consuming all in their path.

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