oyster-beds

We borrowed the money for an outfit of grub from Johnny Heinhold, filled our water - barrels, and sailed away that day for the oyster-beds.

Chapter 11 2010

Francisco Bay, from raided oyster-beds and fights at night on shoal and flat, to markets in the morning against city wharves, where peddlers and saloon-keepers came down to buy.

Chapter 7 2010

About the hills was scattered a great variety of aromatic plants, quantities of shells, and whole oyster-beds, looking almost as fresh as if they had been found by the sea-side.

Travels in Morocco 2003

Normally she would be poled out slowly over the oyster-beds, but there were paddles, too, tied together and stuck up in the ground like flagstaff's.

The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

The creeks of the marshes swarm with fish of every sort, and there are oyster-beds containing large and toothsome bivalves.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

Alas! and he wrote not out of inward inspiration, but to earn his wages; and with that grand perennial tide flowing by, in whose waters he nevertheless refused to fish, to whose rich oyster-beds the dive was too muddy for him.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

Colchester a year or so ago, is composed of gardens and oyster-beds.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917 Various

These rays have to be fenced out of the oyster-beds along the bay, since they have big mouths full of such strong teeth that they crush an oyster, shell and all, and destroy every one they can reach.

Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

The inhabitants of New Brunswick have noticed that "ice will not form over an oyster-bed, unless the cold is very intense indeed; and when the bays are frozen over, the oyster-beds are easily discovered by the water above them remaining unfrozen, or, as the French residents say, _degèle_."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

Divers often fish for pearls midst oyster-beds, and in more shallow water, but there are nets or dredgers also used for that purpose.

Lord Dolphin Harriet A. Cheever