After all, these plump beauties were harvested just down the coast at Yerseke -- the harbour town known as the mussel capital of Holland. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
"They are a kind of mussel; I never had confidence enough to taste of them," laughed the doctor. From Wordnik.com. [Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim] Reference
There is one kind of mussel that develops without going through the parasite stage, but it is not as common as the others. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference
The octopus makes his predictions by choosing a "mussel" from one of two boxes in his aquarium, which display a flag of the teams involved. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference
That same afternoon we were out on the mussel bed. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
So he took his mussel-shell spade and went to work. From Wordnik.com. [An American Robinson Crusoe for American Boys and Girls] Reference
We used mussel shells, got on the branch, for spoons. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Some scientists doubt the carps 'mussel-eating capacity. From Wordnik.com. [Hungry Carp Mussel In] Reference
Compare the mussel with the snail as to movements and shell. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Ed Voss, Andy Wilson and I went in the river mussel hunting. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
The holes were deep and mussel shells were abundant on its banks. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
With his flint he bored four holes in a great, round mussel shell. From Wordnik.com. [An American Robinson Crusoe for American Boys and Girls] Reference
We were waiting for the tide to fall, to go out to the mussel-bed. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
A live mussel measuring six inches has been found inside a codfish at. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920] Reference
The following are suggested as types: snail, spider, freshwater mussel. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
De only spoons us had wuz mussel shells what us got out of de branches. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1] Reference
So there are; it is a lot of the curious and pretty little zebra-mussel. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
The slave children all carried a mussel shell in their hands to eat with. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
If made of the hard mussel he lives long -- it is difficult for him to die. From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
We would feel down with our feet until we felt a mussel and then dive for it. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
They have a bivalve shell which makes them look something like a small mussel. From Wordnik.com. [Amateur Fish Culture] Reference
Just as I reached for the first mussel I felt something creeping around my left leg. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
He dug it out a little with his mussel shell and found that it led back under a rock. From Wordnik.com. [An American Robinson Crusoe for American Boys and Girls] Reference
The next instant I saw the lantern hidden on the mussel rocks raised and lowered thrice. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
We expect that if the truth was known the mussel snapped at the cod-fish and annoyed it. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920] Reference
Yet, every time Freddie found a clam or a mussel, he wanted it opened to look for pearls. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
He even sent some fresh-water mussel shells, polished like mother-of-pearl, to the absent. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's] Reference
Who cares if I lost a chunk of change investing in a mussel-aquaculture farm north of Bordeaux?. From Wordnik.com. [CASH IS KING] Reference
Our visit to the mussel-bed, as we soon found, had been our formal introduction to the village. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
They have a large oyster and mussel industry on the tidal flats and estuaries on the Britain coast. From Wordnik.com. [Assessing The BP Spill's Impact] Reference
It was after midnight when Pierre crawled over to me again, and pointed to a black patch of mussel rocks below. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
But the mussel, particularly the one found in the James river, yields an iridescent pearl of some little value. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
The zebra mussel, for example, was released into the Great Lakes from the ballast water of a tanker arriving from Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Diversity Disappears In Florida] Reference
Paul made his predictions by opening the lid of one of two clear plastic boxes, each containing a mussel and bearing a team flag. From Wordnik.com. [Paul the Octopus changes sides, now in England camp] Reference
There is Asian duck consomme, mussel bisque with roasted corn, pesto-crusted pork loin and oven-roasted beef with a black-pepper demiglace. From Wordnik.com. [The Educated Palate: Colleges Expel Mystery Meat] Reference
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