Nipper lay as though petrified in front of his victim, and let the mussel exhaust itself while he watched his opportunity to drive his unimpressionable wedge farther and farther in.
Nipper remained there the first part of the night, cramming himself, but at last could not help regretting that a mussel went such a little way.
The mussel worked its hardest, straining till its shells creaked and splinters actually broke off in its efforts to crush the hard armour-plating of the claw.
B} The Mussel shoals are broad ridges of rocks, above Florence, which spread out into the Tennessee.
The Fresh-water Mussel also gains its name, Anodon, or Anodonta, the Toothless One, from the same circumstance.
Bivalves, or shells which consist of two flaps, are those of the Lamellibranchiata or animals with plate-like gills, such as the mussel or oyster.
The holes were deep and mussel shells were abundant on its banks.
When we had journeyed about four miles we reached a creek showing extensive flood-marks and with heaps of mussel shells on its banks but very little water in its channel.
I built here a small cairn and scratched with a mussel shell which I picked up at a blacks' camp (having no knife) my initials and a broad arrow.
And such also is the history of the common edible mussel and common periwinkle; whereas the common edible cockle, and common edible pecten (P.
Colin told briefly, but quite clearly, what he remembered of the life-history of the fresh-water mussel as described in the Bulletin that had been given him, and added the information he had secured from the Deputy Commissioner.
Then the cyst breaks, the mussel drops out, and the tiny wound heals rapidly.
Some days he would spend entirely in the laboratory preparing microscope slides or observing mussel parasites through the microscopes, and making copious notes.
Because the drill prefers the thin-shelled mussel to the thicker-shelled oyster it has been suggested that mussels should be planted outside oyster-beds, so that the drills would stay there.
Has a fresh-water musselreally got a pouch like a kangaroo?
Edelstein is studying the differences between oyster and mussel pearls.
The lucky finder was entirely willing to yield up the shell of the mussel from which the pearl had been taken, and was glad to be informed as to its weight and purity.
It causes a local sore or a cyst, like the tiniest kind of a blister, in the middle of which the larva of the mussel is safely curled up and stays there until fully developed.
Besides which, although the mussel has a shell, it isn't able to look out for itself.
There is one kind of mussel that develops without going through the parasite stage, but it is not as common as the others.
Curiously enough, the only way to raise the mussel artificially is by means of parasitism on the fish.
He was pleased by the lad's self-control, and continued: "The mussel question is of a great deal more interest than you think.
The members of the gens will recite their wi´-gi-e relating to the power of the mussel to resist death, and to its consent to aid the little ones to reach old age.
I'm going to see little Miss Marjorie and 'fess up, and take farewell of Mrs. Mussel and my kind S.
Mrs. Mussel had been doing her regular Sister Anne act at the window and had "seen it all," she assured me .
Compared to her present attitude, Mrs. Mussel was Jest and Youthful Jollity before.
I bought Mrs. Mussel a shrinking bunch of violets to soften the blow, but she wondered if I couldn't get my money back (her money she figures, poor thing!
Mrs. Mussel gets five of it and the rest I may waste in riotous living.
When I reported my empty net to Mrs. Mussel on returning, she emitted a little desolate cluck.
I shrink from putting a Spoon River scandal on her mossy tombstone, but my Mrs. Mussel is her lineal descendant.
I dashed thankfully home and almost jolted Mrs. Musselout of her gloom, bought two gingham dresses for mornings and hied me to my new home.
Mrs. Mussel telephoned to the Stranger's Friend and the kind little S.
When he reached a part which he wished to examine, he dropped the anchor, lay down at full length, looked over the edge of the raft, and on perceiving a pearl-mussel laid hold of it with the instrument.
The large heaps of mussel shells that were found near each hut proclaimed the mud banks to be a principal source of food.
They fell in with many huts along the different shores of the river, of the same bad construction as those of Port Dalrymple, but with fewer heaps of mussel shells lying near them.
He dug it out a little with his mussel shell and found that it led back under a rock.
With his flint he bored four holes in a great, round mussel shell.
A common and neat industry in China is the production of fraudulent pearls, pretty and in accordance with submitted design, in which the co-operation of the obedient but frail mussel is necessary.
The slave children all carried a mussel shell in their hands to eat with.
We used mussel shells, got on the branch, for spoons.
The food was put on large trays and the children all gathered around and ate, dipping up their food with their mussel shells which they used for spoons.
The mussel shell and the fish scales were put back in the box, and the girls went in.
The mussel shell grew bigger and bigger, and turned into a pretty little boat, which would have held a dozen children.
Then the girl placed the mussel shell on the water and took the fish scales in her hand.
The Mussel is, as a rule, a stay-at-home, but he can move from place to place if he likes.
Some build two shells--the Oyster and Mussel do, as you know.
As everyone knows, the Mussel and the Oyster live between two hinged shells.
Now the threads are fixed by the foot, just where the Mussel wishes to anchor himself.
The mantle of the Mussel or the Oyster is in two pieces; and each half forms its own shell.
The Starfish merely presses the mussel into its mouth, cleans out the shells, and throws them away.
The Mussel which makes such long anchor-threads might be called "the silkworm of the sea.
If the Mussel is such a stay-at-home, how does he find his food?
The Mussel or Oyster, with shells gaping wide open, is bound to get some of this food with the water which enters the shells.
These eat it as it grows; or else, like the mussel and oyster, swallow the tiny scraps of it which float everywhere like so much dust.
The mussel was his greatest joy, perhaps; it had been given him by a fisherman, who had brought a pocket-full back from his sea trip, to please his own children.
The common species of Modiolus, the "horse mussel," lives in great numbers north of Cape Hatteras at and below the line of low water, and is much larger than the edible mussel just described.
This conspicuous freshwater mussel is no longer an inhabitant of the British Isles, but still lives in the Seine, and is still more abundant in the Loire.
The apple mussel scale is now established throughout the temperate regions of the world.
The Oyster, Scallop, Clam, Musseland Abalone Industries," by Ernest Ingersoll.
The northern coast of the harbor has extensive mud and sand flats, covered for the most part with eel grass or scattered mussel beds.
Some of the mud flats are so soft that they are practically barren, or given up largely to mussel beds; while much of the sand, as, e.
The mussels are of great value economically, thousands of bushels of the edible mussel (Mytilus edulis) being consumed annually in Europe.
In the course of his observations in Italy, Stensen had seen many mussel shells, which had been gathered from various layers of the earth's surface.
On the other hand, a certain number of the so-called mussel shells were not composed of the ordinary materials of which such shells are usually made up; but had indeed only the external form of genuine shells.
Stensen considered, however, that even these must be regarded as originating in real mussel shells, the original substance having been later on replaced by other material.
Thus, it is almost regarded as an established fact by conchologists and others, that the fresh-water mussel (Dreyssensia polymorpha) was introduced into England at the beginning of this century.
As the larva of this fresh-water mussel is free-swimming, its propagation is much favoured by canals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mussel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
