Algal turfs are grown on screens and then fed to herbivores such as whelk, parrotfish, and crab. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 3] Reference
Many not fit to run a whelk stall cf Dave Cameron. From Wordnik.com. [Ivan the Terrible: Quoting NHS Bevan is the Bollocks] Reference
A whelk, a murex, an olive; shells washed past his feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Shell Collector : Stories] Reference
"What's a whelk got to do with a supernova?" said Arthur. From Wordnik.com. [Life, the Universe, and Everything]
I picked up some whelk shells and Jim found a periwinkle. From Wordnik.com. [that's the news...] Reference
The Clean Hull Act of 2009 passed, and the dog whelk is safe. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2009] Reference
You'll probably never look at a whelk in the same way again. From Wordnik.com. [The Backlog Reviews: Number Three - The Skinner] Reference
This government couldn't organise a ... well ... run a whelk stall. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Labour going bankrupt: Gordon & Labour could not run a whelk stall. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
Not a sheep: Couldn't run a whelk stall skip to main | skip to sidebar. From Wordnik.com. [Couldn't run a whelk stall] Reference
Also, although they are very similar, the egg strand is from a channeled whelk. From Wordnik.com. [Too drunk to get drunk: an amateur naturalist reports] Reference
None of it was because whomever the incumbent, "they couldn't run a whelk stall". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Not having run even a whelk stall, he does not even have a first aid certificate. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
It is probably Busycon sinistrum, the lightning whelk, although I may be mistaken. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
He has run nothing whatsoever, not a state, not a city, not a school, not a whelk stand. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
We'd finally got the idea of cuisine and had the Michelin stars and whelk ice cream to prove it. From Wordnik.com. [Whelk ice cream never meant we stopped being a Pot Noodle nation] Reference
I saw a soul being drawn from a rotund, substantial-looking body like a whelk from its shell. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of the Comet] Reference
I've seen that; it must have been planned on the back of a whelk bill one that someone then lost. From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
I must contact him and ask him what his plans are for Belgian whelk production over the next decade. From Wordnik.com. [A man with a plan] Reference
The basic level would be that established as the minimum necessary to successfully run a whelk stall. From Wordnik.com. [Nadine Socks it to Labour on the NHS] Reference
Yet gain the Asian community has split along communal lines, and shown itself not fit to run a whelk stall. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
The bottom line is that most of ACPO are totally talentless without backbone and could not run a whelk stall. From Wordnik.com. [Whilst Rome Burns………… « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
The stubborn whelk directed a sudden current at the ambassador, threatening to batter the merman against the walls. From Wordnik.com. [Odyssey]
"Why is present government policy ... now determined by people who would have serious trouble managing a whelk stall?". From Wordnik.com. [April 15th, 2009] Reference
If he had le Moyne's paintings on hand, why did de Bry erroneously engrave a Pacific nautilus and not a Florida whelk shell?. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil in the Details] Reference
By gross I mean pirates with the face of an octopus or whelk shells, covered with barnacles and other gross special effects. From Wordnik.com. [Getting gross « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts] Reference
Then a whale to a whelk we have swallowed the King of. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Mary and Harold] Reference
He's as phull of drink as a whelk-shell's phull of whelk. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
Second course tube steak and finish with creamed whelk surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Others are covered in lacy white growths, the egg casing of whelk snails. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He rins about in a wee motor-cawr, and wad speir the inside oot o 'a whelk.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Thirty-Nine Steps] Reference
Next morning the baskets were drawn up full of what looked like whelk shells. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Amulet] Reference
Hermit-crabs hide their soft tail in the shell of a whelk or some other sea-snail. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
A whelk fastens itself to its chosen mussel, then drills through the shell to reach the meat. From Wordnik.com. [BC Bloggers] Reference
It was like finding a whelk - stall in a desert, as she afterwards partially expressed herself. From Wordnik.com. [Reginald] Reference
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