"What! Are more of them coming in this little cockleshell?". From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls First Appearances in Photo Dramas] Reference
"But, cockleshell or no cockleshell, she's big enough for me!". From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
Without a moment's delay the Tenor dived in after him, the cockleshell of. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
The only other items in the grave were bay and willow leaves and a single pierced cockleshell. From Wordnik.com. [Worcester Pilgrim] Reference
A high sea ran, and the light boat dived, and soared, and fell again, dancing like a cockleshell. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
And in the morning there was a cockleshell of a boat oared in by one of the men who had found it downriver. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Therefore she knelt in a cockleshell alone on a rushing river and sped through, a wilderness into appalling danger. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Those who had dared to pit this cockleshell against the unleashed might of the Vilayet could do naught but cling and wait. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
Why, that cockleshell of a Britain has forty millions!. From Wordnik.com. [The Melting-Pot] Reference
And the hawk bade him say, 'The loan of thy cockleshell.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete] Reference
I didn't care a cockleshell for it, but to-day I am beginning to be glad of it. From Wordnik.com. [Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead] Reference
On this cockleshell of a craft, among these rude spirits of alien races, he was powerless. From Wordnik.com. [The Stowaway Girl] Reference
The Race had got hold of the cockleshell, and a piece of board would never make it let go. From Wordnik.com. [Carette of Sark] Reference
He made no inquiry about Pasiance, but put us into his cockleshell and pulled for the cutter. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Rubein, and other stories] Reference
The cockleshell of the Atlantic billows had become a thing of pride in the shelter of Farewell Cove. From Wordnik.com. [The Man in the Twilight] Reference
To take one of those cockleshell row boats and scull a few miles down the coast would lead him where?. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Lost Himself] Reference
Before I left I wished them all Godspeed on the dainty journey they were making in their cockleshell. From Wordnik.com. [One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America] Reference
Groups of trackers were on the bank squatting on the rocks to see the foreign devil and his cockleshell. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference
Whether this 'cockleshell,' as the skipper calls her, can weather a severe storm on the open sea, is a question. From Wordnik.com. [Curlie Carson Listens In] Reference
Below Paspahegh a cockleshell of a boat carrying a great white sail overtook me, and I was hailed by young Hamor. From Wordnik.com. [To Have and to Hold] Reference
The act of taking so long a passage in this cockleshell of a vessel is a sure testimony of his devotion and bravery. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedy of St. Helena] Reference
A few minutes later, the little craft -- oh, what a frail cockleshell she looked in the midst of that mountainous sea!. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"] Reference
In their cockleshell of a boat, they know that to run before the wind is their safest plan, and so they speed on south-eastward. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure] Reference
We didn't cast anchor but got into a cockleshell of a small dinghy and rowed ashore under the cliffs, where we were met by de Lisle. From Wordnik.com. [Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2] Reference
At first, it seemed, in this cockleshell, we were little better off than clinging to the spar, for every wave threatened to swamp it. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess] Reference
Constable out of the window and call Messire Noel in at the door, but the comrades of the cockleshell really mean much more mischief. From Wordnik.com. [If I Were King] Reference
I shuddered with more than cold -- had I known what a cockleshell it was I might have paused before trusting my life so readily to it. From Wordnik.com. [Greener Than You Think] Reference
Although the raft was tossed about like a cockleshell, it went through without injury, and none of the goods were displaced or harmed. From Wordnik.com. [Klondike Nuggets and How Two Boys Secured Them] Reference
"But I have got a few without the husks in the boat," said the girl, rising and running to the place where the cockleshell had been left. From Wordnik.com. [Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago] Reference
Land, in long hood and gabardine of grey, and with the pilgrim's cockleshell on his shoulder, had met another masker, habited like himself. From Wordnik.com. [If I Were King] Reference
Shells ashore are part of the common lot; they come in the day's work: on the water; in a cockleshell -- well, you can't go to ground, anyway!. From Wordnik.com. [Gallipoli Diary, Volume I] Reference
The hands of the great waters grasped the frail cockleshell, twisted it about, tossed it, played with it, and claimed it irrevocably for their own. From Wordnik.com. [The Mississippi Bubble] Reference
It would be madness for an old salt like me to go paddlin 'about the ocean in a cockleshell of a boat when he has the chance of sailin' in a good ship. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Forest Wandering Will's Adventures in South America] Reference
If only there were somewhere a sheltered nook into which this cockleshell of a craft they were riding on might be driven, it would bring him great relief. From Wordnik.com. [Curlie Carson Listens In] Reference
She was the type of woman whom small, diffident men seem to marry instinctively, as unable to help themselves as cockleshell boats sucked into a maelstrom. From Wordnik.com. [Piccadilly Jim] Reference
Were not "concerts of musick" given nightly by fiddlers in cocked hats, ensconced in a "gilded cockleshell," and was not the price of admission a shilling?. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
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