Abundant on wave-washed beaches of both the North and the South are dead shells of another perfectly camouflaged clam called ARCA.
The Bay that lyeth before the Towne at a low spring tyde, will be all flatts for two miles together, upon which is great store of Musclebanckes, and Clam bancks, and Lobsters amongst the rockes and grassie holes.
Drop your clam down to the bottom, and it won't be half a minute before you feel something pull on it.
Ford saw the white flesh of the clam coming slowly up through the water, and he held his breath; for just behind and below it was a sprawling shadowy something that was tugging with all its might at that tough shell-fish.
Ford made no answer, but looked on very seriously while Dab skilfully slit up a tough old Dutch clam into bait.
Pour in water until the jar is nearly full, taking care not to wash the roots out of place, and then put in a freshwater clam and a few water snails.
These are scavengers, for the clam feeds upon organisms that float in the water, while the snails eat the green scum that grows on the glass.
The salamander is to many pupils a lizard of the most poisonous kind; centipeds and millipeds are worms, and they do not recognize that the clam is an animal with sensibilities and instincts.
The different kinds of molds and casts may be illustrated by means of a clam shell and some moist clay, the latter representing the sediments in which the remains of animals and plants are entombed.
The other girls found unbroken clam shells and a brown one which not even Miss Gordon could identify.
Connie picked up a pretty clam shell and Rosemary found one of pure white which Miss Gordon told her was called an angel’s wing.
Cracker with oyster, clam or lobster soups, grated cheese (Parmesan preferred) with macaroni soup.
Serve oysters and clam very cold or deep in their shells pressed into a plate of cracked ice.
Defn: A division of bivalve mollusks of which the common clam (Mya) is the type.
A clam of the Mactra, and allied genera; the sea clam or surf clam.
Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.
Without understanding her words, but knowing well what she meant, we fell to disposing of this, our first clam dinner.
Thus began and ended our first lesson in the Chinook jargon, and our first experience with a clam bake.
Great was the feasting, with clam bakes, huckleberry pies and puddings, venison for meat, and fresh vegetables from our garden, at which the newcomers could not cease from marveling.
They spoke of the weather, of the tide, and of the clam harvest.
Alongshore the soft clam is the onlyclam used for fritters; the tough, long-keeping quahog is shipped to the less-enlightened "city trade.
In the morning the young man arose early, for the tide was then low, and started forth with basket and clam hoe on his arm.
Tunis dropped hisclam hoe and started for the dyke of sand on the crest of which the old man and the old mare were sliding like naughty children down a woodshed roof.
Then dip theclam into water, to wash the sand out, then in the melted butter, and then swallow it.
Fill scallop shells—large clam shell will do—with mixture; sift crumbs over top, heat to slight brown in quick oven.
Make a plain fritter batter, using the clam liquor (or that and milk) in place of milk.
The effect of scoter duck predation on a clam population in Dabob Bay, Washington.
No fireplaces such as were probably used in this area and are found in the Nez Perce region,[123] were recognized by us, although beds of clam shells previously mentioned, may indicate the sites of ancient hearths.
Small heaps of fresh water clam shells, as before mentioned among the resources of the region on p.
Small heaps of fresh-water clam shells are found in both regions.
Seventeen clam shells from the old shell bed shown in Plate V, Fig.
It is made of a small marineclam shell (Pectunculus), probably a young Pectunculus gigantea.
A part of a slab of bacon, a salt codfish, some cold clam fritters, a few molasses cookies, and half a loaf of bread.
When the clam was done, one valve held the meat and the other the liquor.
It appeared as if the stone, in the process of formation, had filled the mould which a clam-shell furnished; or the same law that shaped the clam had made a clam of stone.
He also told us that theclam which I had was the sea-clam, or hen, and was good to eat.
Probably the clamground has been stirred too frequently, after all.
I was also pleased to find that man and the clam lay still at the same angle to one another.
Mother and I made a white liquid of powdered clam shells and water, with which we painted it until one would think it the same kind of wall you have in Scrooby.
This plant bears berries somewhat red, and speckled with white, as if you had thrown powdered clam shells on them.
Some day, after we own cows, we can use the large, flat clam shells with which to skim milk, and when we make our own butter and cheese, we shall be rich indeed.
Never buy a clam or oyster if the shells are parted.
Wash yourclam shells, put them in a pot with the water only which adheres to them, cover the pot closely, and as soon as they open take them out of the shell.
And that's how we left behind the tin of pilot biscuit for clam chowder," said Birdie.
Say, if we only had the clam chowder that goes with these crackers, wouldn't it be great!
As for my effort in the culinary line--I have not made an effort in the culinary line for more than at least thirty years, except once to make a clam pie, which was pronounced by my friends as very good.
The taste for Clam Chowder is an acquired one, nor will stewed tortoise ever rank with thick turtle in British estimation, although 'tis not the same tortoise which is used in London households to break the coals with.
She had been there fully an hour, and for a while had been busy building a little castle in the sand, making a foundation of clam shells, and using an old bottle for a tower.
The Book interrupted the Imp at this point, and observed: "Now glue your eyes upon the ring, And see the Juggling Clam Transform a piece of purple string Into a pillow-sham.
And after that he'll lightly spring Into the atmosphere, And show you how a Clam can sing If he but persevere.
Jimmieboy, as the Clam bowed himself out of the ring.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clam" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
