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  • Ops include the Bordeaux 'Cockleshell' raid but there's lots more besides.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • The company created not only Dangermouse, but also an animated version of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, along with Count Duckula, Jamie and the Magic Torch and Cockleshell Bay.

    Danger Mouse creator Mark Hall dies, aged 75 2011

  • Which is how Hasler came to lead a small unit of Royal Marines on "a suicide mission by any other name", and the legend of the Cockleshell heroes was born.

    TV highlights 01/11/2011 2011

  • The best guess, thus far, has been provided by Katherine Lack in her book The Cockleshell Pilgrim.

    Worcester Pilgrim 2008

  • Poor soul, I hope he is happy; indeed I know he is, for he lies in Cockleshell churchyard, the place he was always so fond of, and has his Sunday waistcoat on him with the fine gold buttons, which he was always so proud of.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • The Companions of the Cockleshell -- eh, well, the world knows us.

    The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Cockleshell had just the hairy looks of Mrs. Hern, and also at the moment, probably had the same amiable feelings.

    Red Money Fergus Hume 1895

  • Mother Cockleshell laughed and nodded, then emptied the ashes out of her pipe and spoke out, irrelevantly as it would seem: "The child has taken the hearts of the young from me," said she, shaking her grizzled head;

    Red Money Fergus Hume 1895

  • Chaldea knew her at once, having often seen her when she had come to visit Mother Cockleshell a few months previously.

    Red Money Fergus Hume 1895

  • Cockleshell, she raised her hand and spoke authoritatively.

    Red Money Fergus Hume 1895

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