We cut some wood, and brought off cockles enough for all the ship's company; but having no small shot, we could kill no pigeons.
Here I found the greatest number of pigeons that ever I saw either in the East or West Indies, and small cockles in the sea round the island in such quantities that we might have laden the boat in an hour's time.
I mean to say, she would never think I could bowl her out as easy as buying cockles off a barrow.
Some o' th' other chaps 'ud be glad enough to take a few of these cockles off you.
Jinny stared at her for a moment in astonishment from under the brim of her fine befeathered hat: "Have ye got any cockles to-day?
This was the very last thing which John wished to do, and in order to divert Jinny's mind, he hastily proposed that they should hunt for cockles themselves.
John laid down his handkerchief full of cockles and began to roll up his trousers higher.
On reaching Leigh the cockles are thrown out in great heaps by the side of the creek, where they are covered at each tide.
Oh, yes, he does to carry the cockles to the boat while we scrape them out.
The cockles were for the most part buried some five or six inches in the sand, and were found in great numbers; the two elder boys digging and raking while Joe picked them up, and threw them into the baskets.
They say there are more cockles down there than there are here now.
It was a broad-beamed craft, of over twenty feet long, and would carry more than a ton of cockles if filled up.
Cockles fine; and cockles new, They are as fine as any.
Herrings, sprats or plaice, or cockles for delight.
There is many a thing in the sea is not decent, but cockles is fit to put before the Lord!
And as to the sea, there is something from it every day of the year, a handful of periwinkles to make kitchen, or cockles maybe.
Probably the origin is this:--Cares and troubles clog the heart as cockles clog a ship.
Twould rise the cockles av your heart to hear her singing the Coolin.
But "the poore women that gather cockles and mussels on the sandes, by often use are in better credyte with them.
Mark said that Aunt Deb should have a letter which would warm the cocklesof her heart.
You'll see a leader in next Saturday's Mercury which will warm thecockles of your heart.
Archibald, reading it, was aware that his cheeks, as also the cockles of his heart, were very warm indeed.
And, on next Saturday--you will read a leader in the Mercury which will warm the cockles of your heart.
The blue obtained upon bond paper appears to be particularly rich, and the whites remain pure; but bond paper cockles badly, and the cockles remain in the finished print.
It is strong, cockles but little, and dries very smooth.
At the mouth of the Thames the gathering of cockles forms a considerable industry, especially at Leigh.
The cocklesare gathered by the simple process of raking them from the sand, and they are usually boiled and extracted from their shells before being sent to market.
Cockles Harbor is protected on the north by two Islands, which during low tides are one Island.
I believe it to have been rather the name of a place where he lived, either at Cockles Harbor, or on Menantic Creek, Shelter Island.
Two old women fresh from their whiff of the briny trudged through Irishtown along London bridge road, one with a sanded tired umbrella, one with a midwife's bag in which eleven cockles rolled.
Cracking his jokes too: warms the cocklesof his heart.
At Haddington road corner two sanded women halted themselves, an umbrella and a bag in which eleven cockles rolled to view with wonder the lord mayor and lady mayoress without his golden chain.
May I ask you to listen very quietly, while I repeat the Master's own words over very softly and clearly, so that they may get into the inner cockles of our hearts anew?
And if any of my readers ever go to Kendal, and will sup on fresh cockles and haver cake, they will remember me pleasantly as long as they live.
The cockles will be fresh from Morcambe Bay, or Sandside, and if one has never eaten haver cake with the delicious butter that is plentiful there, he has a gastronomical luxury to become acquainted with.
Fanny, my best of darlings, give me a drop of something that's best for warming the cockles of an old man's heart.
You could afford to be extravagant in the way of shell-fish, if you liked such delicacies, since a large red cotton pocket-handkerchief full of cockles and mussels only cost a penny, and whelks and periwinkles sold at a halfpenny the pint.
We could pick you blackberries, if you like them," suggested Isobel; "or get you cockles and mussels from the shore.
Mussels and Cockles may likewise be stew'd and grill'd in Scallop Shells, as directed for Oysters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cockles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
