After having hidden the kangaroo, the women picked up their mussels and started for their camp, when up came the hunters, Quarrian and Gidgereegah, who had tracked the kangaroo right to the creek.
The young men, puzzled in their minds, followed the women to their camp, and when the mussels were cooked the hunters joined the old women at their dinner.
The river man who gathersmussels calls these odd-shaped pearls "slugs.
Those who, as boys, have opened hundreds of river mussels only to find a very few small, badly misshapen "slugs" will realize that it is only one mollusc in a very large number that contains a fine pearl.
I've been trying to find out the cause of the difference in the secretions of the mussels that have very bright pearly shells and those that are dull.
Then Walton noticed that young mussels in great numbers were gathering on the submerged stakes of his net, and being prolific of ideas, he promptly had several hundred more stakes cut and driven into the mud.
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.
If the birds ate mussels and the birds were good to eat, Walton reasoned that mussels must be fit for food.
It is wise to keep these fish in a hatchery for a month or so and then simply release them; when the mussels are ready they will drop off, and a new crop of mussels is on the way.
The get-rich-quick hope is very general, and it seems so much easier to dredge mussels and open them until a fortune is found in one than it does to farm for a living.
But the cure would be worse than the disease, for the mussels would spread over the oyster-bed and the drills with them, since they would have so excellent a breeding ground.
He found, then, that mussels thus suspended over the mud grew fatter and of better flavor, and accordingly designed frames with interlacing branches which collected them by hundreds.
Are all mussels equally good for making mother-of-pearl?
Again, you may have to get mussels for some work that is being done on shellfish for food.
Soon, however, mussels came to be in great demand.
But you'll go into all that when you get to Fairport, and even after you have worked at mussels all summer there will be a lot of problems you won't have touched.
The King had about his neck a string of pearls as big as peas, which would have been worth three or four hundred pounds, if the pearls had been taken from the mussels as they should have been.
They discovered a river on the south side running into the mainland, on the banks of which were good stores of musselsand oysters, goodly trees, flowers of all colors, and strawberries.
Take off half shells and place the mussels in a chafing dish and pour over them Bechamel sauce and then add sufficient milk gravy to cover.
There must bemussels in the brook, and pearls in the mussels.
Lisbeth forgot the roller; forgot the mother home from the mill; forgot the very best clothes; forgot everything but the mussels and the brook, and Dickon forgot them too.
Either here or in the snug tunnel nest deep in the bank the young muskrats are born, and here they are weaned upon toothsome mussels and succulent lily roots.
You can catch shrimps, and itsmussels are famous all over the world.
It had a hole in one of the shells too, [Footnote: This ingenious mode of cracking the shells of mussels is common to many birds.
The mussels were not very palatable, for want of salt; but hungry folks must not be dainty, and Louis declared them very good when well roasted, covered up with hot embers.
However, they found water-mussels by groping in the sand, and cray-fish among the gravel at the edge of the water only; the latter pinched their fingers very spitefully.
From the reef she passed on over a great sandy desert, where the worms lay in rings, and the fresh-water mussels in colonies.
But the torpid state was not complete; now and then she had to move, and then she satisfied her hunger with mussels and snails, and would also examine the mud-shafts of the peat-pits.
Unfortunately there were no sleepy, unprepared mussels to surprise; but behind some stones in one of the deep, submarine mountain passes stood a solitary fish, which had apparently got out of its course.
There were musselsand abalones around the next point.
From there it was only a stone's throw to the beach where the mussels and abalones clung so thickly to the rocks.
If you have ever eaten kelp-baked mussels you'll not wait to be urged.
From the ledge of rock which bordered the cove, the half-starved man pulled the razor-backed mussels from the sea-grass and broke them open with his pocket-knife.
The fresh-water mussels and snails and the crayfish burrow deep into the mud and silt at the bottom of ponds and streams where they lie motionless during the winter.
On first approaching the lake we saw the natives in the midst of the water, gathering the mussels (unio).
Dry and parched as the bed of the lake then was, the natives found nevertheless live freshwater mussels by digging to a substratum of sand.
They were old and overgrown with bushes, but they proved that this lake had once contained mussels and the balyan or bulrush, a root eaten by the natives and cooked in such ovens as these.
He eats, too, the berries of the Empetrum nigrum, a plant common on our own hills, and goes to the shore formussels and other shell-fish.
According to Crantz, it uses these to scrape musselsand other shell-fish from the rocks and out of the sand, and also to grapple and get along with, for they enable it to raise itself on the ice.
Then why not make your hot-pot with mussels instead of oysters?
The boys knew that there were hundreds of mussels to be found up the former stream.
When the furor was over, and there were hardly half a hundred wretched mussels left in the waters that had once upon a time fairly teemed with them, the results were very disappointing.
An account of valuable pearls being found in mussels that were picked up along certain streams located in Indiana, Arkansas, and other states, suggested the possibility of like treasures near at home.
But up to that time no one apparently had dreamed that there might be a snug little fortune awaiting the party who just started in to gather the mussels along the Big Sunflower.
Whew, that beats finding pearls in the shells of mussels all hollow!
The date-mussels play an important part in the conversion of sea-contained minerals into dry land.
Poison Cove in Mussel Canal, or Portlock Canal, was so named by Vancouver, whose men ate roasted mussels there.
Here are Peril Point and Poison Cove, where Baranoff lost a hundred Aleuts by their eating of poisonous musselsin 1799.
The shells of both eggs and mussels litter the ground under these dinner-tables.
They swallow the frogs in situ, and carry the moorhen's eggs and mussels off to some adjacent post to eat them comfortably.
These mussels walk, and are said to be "tolerably active" by a great authority on their habits.
The pearl lining shines through the sand, and the mussels gleam like silver spoons under the water.
We could, however, find neither roots nor shrubs of any sort for fuel, and were obliged to content ourselves with chewing some of the mussels to stay our hunger as we walked along.
I believe these were strangers, for the gins of the Fort Bourke tribe continued all the while quietly to fish for mussels in the river without taking notice of them.
There are likewise excellent mussels upon the northern shore of the lake St. Louis, especially in the river of Pearls; they may be about six or seven inches long, and sometimes contain pretty large pearls, but of no great value.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mussels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
