When the weather cleared the immediate need forshellfish sent Jean and Harlan out among the rocks again.
Whenever the weather permitted everyone sought shellfish among the rocks, as it had become necessary to gather a quantity sufficient to last during storms.
Everyone but Ellen appeared to be standing well the enforced diet of bread and shellfish upon which they were now living.
One clear, cold morning Harlan and Jean were gatheringshellfish among the boulders on Sunset Point.
Their daily forays for shellfish had deepened their love of the sea--its ways of mystery that were ever bringing to their attention some new loveliness of form and tint.
The tide was falling and screaming gulls rose and fell over the rocks feeding on the shellfish among the seaweed.
Jean and I will begin gathering shellfish tomorrow, while you men start to lay in a supply of firewood for the winter months," she finished.
The rocks at the mouth of the harbour are literally covered with delicious oysters, and one of our entertainments was at low tide to land on these rocks and get our boatmen to detach as many of the shellfish as we could conveniently consume.
You see men walking in the sea quite a mile out, collecting shellfish and seaweeds, which form a staple diet for both man and beast on Bahrein.
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Shellfish and other Marine Products Beccaficos Haunches of Venison Wild Boar Pastry of Beccaficos and other Birds.
On the beach they started for some rocks which shelved out into the water, for it was possible that they might find some sort of shellfish on the rocks below the surface of the water.
And not eggs alone, for McTee, not to be outdone in courtesy, passed a handful of his shellfish to Harrigan.
He tried to find shellfish first, but without success.
My arguments to induce him to move were all thrown away; he constantly affirmed that if he touched these shellfish through their agency the Boyl-yas* would acquire some mysterious influence over him, which would end in his death.
The freshwater shellfish vary in size from that of a prawn to a large crayfish; the smallest are the best, and when nicely roasted there is no difference in taste between them and a shrimp.
They subsisted by picking up a few shellfish and some dead birds which had been washed ashore, and they ate a sort of cane that grows near the beach, and the Hottentot fig.
It frequents meadows, fields and ploughed ground, where it feeds upon insects, and around the edges of pools and streams where it gets small shellfish and larvae.
How then, Messer Gabriele, would you explain, that in the forty days of the flood's duration, your shellfish could creep the two hundred and fifty miles which divide the hills of Monferrato from the shores of the Adriatic?
Then he ceased pulling at the shellfish and listened.
A genuine lover of the wilderness, he had reached that time of life when love is cleansed of its devastating selfishness, and his feeling for the lonely woman of the Shellfish held something akin to great poetry.
It was not yet light, the smoke was widely diffused, and the precise location of the blaze could not be determined, but it appeared to be on the Shellfish side of the ridge, just below Watson's pasture.
The whole of Shellfish Valley is coming in to see that your Dutchman and his girl gets what's coming to them.
Everybody likes him except that Shellfish Valley crowd, and they feel, I suppose, that I put him down here to keep tab on them, which is the fact.
The entire population of Shellfish Cañon had assembled, voicing high indignation at the ranger's interference.
And she mustn't let any of the Shellfish gang see her in that dress.
He had not been convicted of dishonesty, but it was pretty certain that he was a rustler; in fact, the whole Shellfish community was under suspicion.
What did such a girl mean by living away up there with that Shellfish gang of rustlers and counterfeiters?
With the whole Shellfish Valley on edge, your work will be hampered.
Vertebrate fish are supposed to grow, and increase in size, till the day of their death, but shellfish do not do this.
When the mantle is spread out in shallow water, this shellfish looks like a pink and purple flower.
Then the carnivorous shellfish approach from all directions, foremost amongst them being the different species of Cominella.
Some of these shellfishlive feet below the surface of the sand; some, such as the common cockle, only a fraction of an inch.
Each sand-burrowing shellfish has a different shaped end to its syphon, and the skilled collector can tell at a glance what shellfish is down below.
Nearly all shellfish that burrow have two syphons, or tubes, which they push through the sand.
Animal and vegetable parasites will be found wherever shellfish are crowded together.
As the tide begins to rise, and the buried shellfish feel the water, he will see the sand moving, or showing signs of life; and if he digs quickly enough he may unearth rare and beautiful specimens for his cabinet.
The deeper in the sand the shellfish lives, the longer and stronger the syphon must be.
The time it takes a shellfish to grow to its full size varies a great deal.
Most shellfish move about a great deal, and migrate into deeper water in summer; and on bright clear days retire into dark corners amongst, and even under, stones.
Marine shellfish live in all kinds of places below high water mark; and some of the semi-amphibious ones thrive even above ordinary high water mark, where for days at a time nothing but the tops of the waves could reach them.
Many shells are rare, because we do not know where to look for them; but if we know and can find their food, we will find the shellfish not far away.
They are looking for cockles or other shellfish smashed by the wheel, and will even burrow in the sand to get at them.
It has been known to follow the eating of shellfish (Watson, Salter).
Unripe fruits, partially cooked or decaying meats and vegetables, shellfish and fish some time from the water, may produce the disease in those predisposed to it.
Arriving on the seafloor at a depth of about five meters, he fell to his knees and stuffed his sack with shellfish gathered at random.
He gathered only about ten shellfish per dive, because he had to tear them from the banks where each clung with its tough mass of filaments.
But usually the shellfish are spread out on mats made from the esparto grass that covers the beaches.
Captain Nemo left the cave, and we climbed back up the bank of shellfish in the midst of these clear waters not yet disturbed by divers at work.
The shellfish Meleagrina, that womb for pearls whose valves are nearly equal in size, has the shape of a round shell with thick walls and a very rough exterior.
There are some shellfish that turn into real jewel coffers.
Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides.
Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects.
We see from this that since the building was constructed in Roman times the land has sunk, and carried the columns into the sea, and shellfish have bored into them.
In these waters lived the shellfish whose shells we are finding.
I wish that I knew more about it, but if we can get water and cocoa-nuts and shellfish there, we must not complain.
They would most likely be able to get shellfish from the rocks, which would be an improvement on the junk.
Possibly he began with Crustacea; in any case the practice of crunching shellfish led to a stronger and stronger development of the hard plate which lined his mouth.
Several shellfish have been traced in this way, and a sea-urchin in the chalk has been followed, quite gradually, from one end of a genus to the other.
It's the bulldog of the shellfish tribe, and a harpoon wouldn't hold the shark more securely.
Well, it's a kind of shellfish that's common on this coast.
Variation: Shellfish Chowder Add 1 cup chopped green pepper and 1 cup cooked crab or shrimp to soup when adding chicken.
All theshellfish of the sea, and the creatures with bony skeletons, take in the bone-building, shell-making lime with their food.
These rocks preserve, by the fossils they contain, a great variety of shellfish which had limy skeletons.
These shellfish should always be alive when purchased.
All shellfish when fresh have an agreeable fresh odor.
I was all for shellfish them days, and I see some big mussels attached to the rocks, it bein' low water.
Do you know what part of the shellfish is the scallop of commerce?
The beach shone white under the moonlight, and dotting it were large shellfish and moving crabs that scuttled away from them.
All shellfish must be actively alive before cooking.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shellfish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clam; crab; limpet; lobster; oyster; prawn; scallop; shellfish; shrimp; snail; steamer; whelk
