You have all done well, and I will see to it that you are all adequately rewarded-- Christie and Lindsay by getting their step, and you by getting a somewhat better craft than the little cockleshell in which you have already done so well.
Therefore she knelt in a cockleshell alone on a rushing river and sped through, a wilderness into appalling danger.
At first, it took some strong pulling at the oars to start the sailboat moving away from the dock, and Sandy feared that they would tip over the frail cockleshellof the dinghy.
The hot sun made rowing even the lightcockleshell of the dinghy unpleasant work.
What was the fame acquired by his cockleshell curricle; his theatrical reputation; all the applause attending the perfection of histrionic art; the flatteries of Billy Finch, a sort of kidnapper of juvenile actors and actresses of the O.
My plan was simply to row in as near the shore as possible, accompanied by Summers, in the cockleshell of a dinghy belonging to the "Mouette," and then quietly slip into the water and swim the remainder of the distance.
If only there were somewhere a sheltered nook into which thiscockleshell of a craft they were riding on might be driven, it would bring him great relief.
Gentilla Stanley am I called, but Mother Cockleshell was their name for me.
Then it occurred to her that she had not yet examined Mother Cockleshell as had been her original intention when she came to the camp.
The tree don't care for the ivy, but the ivy loves the tree," said Mother Cockleshell darkly.
I met Mother Cockleshell yesterday," she observed; "but I thought nothing of it, as she belongs to Devonshire.
She would make trouble," replied Mother Cockleshell mysteriously.
Oh, I can say nothing the Poknees would listen to," said Mother Cockleshell readily.
And now," Mother Cockleshell gave a tug at the donkey's mouth, "I goes my ways.
When Mother Cockleshell ceased he poured out a flood of the kalo jib with much gesticulation, and in a voice which boomed like a gong.
From the million Mother Cockleshell would hand over to me.
Mother Cockleshell screeched like a night-owl and hastily pattered some gypsy spell to avert evil.
Good day to you, my lady, and to you, sir," said Mother Cockleshell in a stronger and harsher voice than would have been expected from one of her age and diminished stature.
Therefore Miss Greeby, and with every reason, was disappointed, and when the queen of the woodland spoke she was still more so, for Mother Cockleshell did not even interlard her English speech with Romany words, as did Chaldea.
That's tellings," said Mother Cockleshell with a wink of her lively eye.
I read fear in her eyes, yet she said nothing to dissuade me, and our hands clasped, as I led her to the side, where she could look down at the cockleshell tossing below.
Even if the schooner was a floating sepulcher, it was safer by far than the cockleshelltowing alongside.
But I have got a few without the husks in the boat," said the girl, rising and running to the place where the cockleshell had been left.
When the artists had finished they proceeded to the shore, and to their surprise and amusement found the cockleshell in possession of a piratical urchin of about four years of age in a charmingly light state of clothing.
But it was soon found that, as the cockleshell had no rudder, and the intricacies they had to wind among were numerous, frequent directions and corrections were called for from the girl.
His mother makes appeal to a sky deity who sends to her aid the two goddesses Princess Cockleshell and Princess Clam.
Then, with rope and pulley from the same ample storehouse, he showed Carette how she could, with her own unaided strength, hitch on her cockleshell and haul it up the cliff side out of reach of the hungriest wave.
She was dancing eagerly among the big round stones on the shore of Havre Gosselin, when the boat came in, with the cockleshell in tow and the small boy sitting in it, with his chin on his knees and shaking still with excitement and chills.
A cockleshell and a board were but feeble things, and the girl knew it, and, dancing wildly all the time because she could not stand still, looked each second to see the tiny craft flung aside and cracked on the jagged rocks.
And so the yellow cockleshell became Carette's golden bridge, and thereafter her comings and goings knew no bounds but her own wilful will and the states of the tides and the weather.
But, with a great raking pull here, and a mighty sweep there, kneeling now, and now standing with one foot braced against the side for leverage, the boy managed in some marvellous way to keep his cockleshell in midstream.
A man habited like a pilgrim from the Holy Land, in long hood and gabardine of grey, and with the pilgrim's cockleshell on his shoulder, had met another masker, habited like himself.
The comrades of the Cockleshell were freed of their bonds and bade to stand apart, under guard and out of earshot, to wait on destiny for future commands.
Noel believes that the astrologer will advise the king to fling his Grand Constable out of the window and call Messire Noel in at the door, but the comrades of the cockleshell really mean much more mischief.
Either would be a good place in which to careen the little cockleshell ships of our ancestors and scrape their bottoms.
Mechanically I grasped the ropes as we drifted up to them, and with the cat-like agility of a practiced sailor, Van Dyck lifted himself gently out of our cockleshell and went up the dangling tackle to disappear silently over the yacht's rail.
Could that cockleshell live a moment against that creaming surging wall of water rolling on to engulf it?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cockleshell" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boat; canoe; cruiser; ferry; scallop; shell
