It is more common on shells than on stones, generally attached to the old valve of some cockle or scallop.
But the cockle can leap on occasion much more vigorously; one has been seen to throw itself clear over the gunwale of a boat when laid on the bottom-boards.
For the first time I began to think that I should not survive, even if the mate and Dr Cockle did.
As Dr Cocklewished to visit a part of the bay a little distance off, he borrowed one of the boats manned with two natives, Jim Horner, and me.
Captain Barnett dined on board, and then invited Captain Hawkins and Dr Cockle to come and sup with him, I managed to address the old gentleman, and told him about Jack.
He had heard, I have no doubt, of our adventures from Dr Cockle or the mate.
When Dr Cockle returned, though at first he began to scold the man, when he heard why he remained he told him he was right.
At last Dr Cockle exclaimed-- "There is an opening.
The mate spoke in the same way, and entreated the captain even in stronger language than Dr Cockle had used.
Dr Cockle had become accustomed to it, but I cannot fancy that it was very pleasant to him.
I felt sure from the kind way in which Doctor Cockle spoke that he would wish to serve me.
He stood, as he spoke, with his musket in his hand pointed towards the savages, and then slowly retreated, while Dr Cockle sprang on board.
I told Dr Cockle all I had heard about my brother Jack from Miles Soper.
As Dr Cockle was going on shore with one of the mates and a party of the men, he to botanise and they to obtain fresh provisions, I went up to the captain and asked leave to accompany him.
Dr Cockle and the third mate, with the cooper, whom the captain thought he could trust, had landed.
Cockle or Cokyl is used by Wycliffe and other old writers in the sense of a weed generally.
E278] Cockle or Cokyl was used by Wycliffe and other old writers in the sense of a weed generally, but in later works has been confined to the gith or corn-pink.
When sea and sand turn far inland, And mussels grow on ilka tree, 60 When cockle shells turn siller bells, I'll drink the orange wine wi' thee.
Hygienic pilgrim that she is, she came equipped not with cockle shells and sandal shoon, but with sleeping bags, coffee, and cereals.
Wooley Foster has a hen, Cockle button, cockle ben, She lay eggs for gentlemen, But none for Wooley Foster!
With cockle shells, and silver bells, And pretty maids all of a row.
It is sometimes useful to have at hand a mounting solution which will not cockle the mount, and the late Mr. G.
The prints are laid on this to dry spontaneously, and theycockle up but very little.
For further early references to Cockle or Darnel see note on "Darnelle" in the "Catholicon Anglicum," p.
But in Shakespeare's time Darnel, like Cockle (which see), was the general name for any hurtful weed.
In Dorsetshire the Cockle is the bur of the Burdock.
Their doctrine certainly accorded perfectly with our Saviour's teaching, in the parable of the cockle and the good grain.
The Saviour ordered us to let thecockle grow with the good grain until the harvest time, lest in uprooting the cockle we uproot also the wheat with it.
The first of these is the well-known passage of St. Matthew, in which our Saviour forbids the servants of the householder to gather up the cockle before the harvest time, lest they root up the wheat with it.
Moreover, continues Wazo, those who are cockle to-day may be converted to-morrow, and be garnered in as wheat at the harvest time.
We all believe in the great God," quoth he; "He woulde sowe some difficulty, Or springe cockle in our clean corn.
Whatever those classes might desire, it was not to have "cockle sown" by unauthorised intruders "in the corn" of their ordinary instruction.
Loues feeling is more soft and sensible, Then are the tender hornes of Cockle Snayles.
By his Cocklehat and staffe, and his Sandal shoone Qu.
One of them, the spotted goby, which is found rather commonly in the lower reaches of the Thames, nearly always takes one of the shells of a cockle for this purpose.
But it is really a shell-bearing mollusk, like the cockle and the clam.
He is composed of two shells and a soft piece, is chiefly useful for poisoning children and is found at Sandymount, a place where nobody but a cockle would live.
The cockle has no scale, and feels the deprivation keenly, hiding himself deep in the sea and seldom venturing forth except at night-time.
Foot marks of the kangaroo were imprinted on the sand, and a dog was seen; drupes of the pandanus, which had been sucked, lay in every direction, and small cockle shells were scattered on the beaches.
A pair of these cockle shells, bleached in the sun, weighed a hundred and one pounds; but still they were much inferior in size to some I have since seen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cockle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
