Well," I said, "I can tell you what limpets are for now.
And when the tide was back you might have seen him at any time, far away out among the weed-covered boulders and rocks, with a chisel and hammer to knock the limpets off and a tiny basket on his back to pop them into.
Of course the limpets had to be gathered first, and as Kenneth was young and Duncan was old, it was the work of the boy to collect these.
And the shell being something like that of a cockle, it sticks to the rocks, just as limpets do.
Now Icesius says that limpets are more digestible than those shell-fish which have been already mentioned; but that oysters are not so nutritious as limpets, and are filling, but nevertheless are more digestible.
The lagoon abounded with wild fowl, and we found wild celery, mussels, and limpets in plenty.
Gilliatt breakfasted on a few limpets which he plucked with difficulty from the rocks.
Limpets had left their slime upon the bony nostrils.
It is the Slit Limpet,[25] which by the older naturalists was placed in close alliance with the Limpets proper, as if a member of the same family.
The Limpets dwell upon the sea-shore, in the parts alternately covered and uncovered by the waves.
The poorer inhabitants of the coast eat limpets when they have nothing else, but their flesh is singularly coriaceous and indigestible.
Several of the seniors and a few Limpets had prepared speeches, which they duly delivered.
I just came to say there was too much noise, and--" But the laughter of the Limpets drowned the rest, in the midst of which he retired miserably to the door and escaped.
If he did thrash a batch of juniors one day, or stop some disorderly Limpets of their play, it never seemed to make much impression.
Tucker and Wibberly, the only two monitors engaged, were completely doubled up, while the number of maimed and disabled Limpets and juniors was nearly beyond counting.
No half-holiday next Wednesday, and for the seniors a hundred lines of Greek to write out; for the Limpets a hundred lines of Latin, and for the juniors fifty lines of Latin.
Two days before the election a mass meeting of juniors and Limpets of all houses and ages, summoned by proclamation, was held in a corner of the playground, "to hear addresses by the candidates, and elect a member for Shellport.
Limpets were gathered from the pools disclosed between the rocks below high tide, after the pack-ice had been driven away.
The whole party had been collecting limpets and seaweed to eat with the stewed seal bones.
The hoosh-pot with our preciouslimpets and seaweed was kicked over in the rush.
Note: The common European limpets of the genus Patella (esp.
Numerous species of limpets occur on the Pacific coast of America, some of them of large size.
To-day we shot wild geese in abundance, and got of shell-fish, as limpets and muscles.
I was resolved to eat no more limpets till we landed, which we did some time after upon an island.
If there are any limpets in Mars they are fresh-water ones.
Then the tiny point of her pretty shoe was always poking itself inquiringly into crevices, out of which Harry had to fish red anemones or unusually large limpets or mussels.
If limpetswere but able to read printed character in the English tongue, this work would have more interest for them than the ablest investigations upon the political and social history of man.
Mussels, then, and the beak thrust in amongst seaweed; but no limpets up to the present.
These names suit it well, for it does not live on oysters, but on mussels, limpets and whelks.
One of these, the Limpet, you can always be sure of finding at low tide; indeed, there are so many Limpets on the rocks that it would be hard not to see them.
On one surface of a large block, over all sides of which limpets were regularly and plentifully distributed, there were two flat fragments of a fossil shell about 3 inches by 4 inches, each embedded in the chalk.
As the shells cannot be adapted daily to different forms of surface, the limpets generally return to the same place of attachment.
For several days the shipwrecked party continued to live chiefly on limpets and mussels gathered on the sea-shore.
Thus armed, and with a small quantity of cold pork, and a large allowance of cold boiled limpets and mussels in their wallets, they set out on their explorations.
Some go gathering mussels and limpets along the strand, while the more robust of the women, under the direction of the old men, proceed to the construction of wigwams.
Limpets are vegetable-feeders, and when the water is still, or absent, they creep slowly about the rock, nibbling the tiny vegetation on its surface.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limpets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
