quahaugs

"The idea of comparing these oysters with quahaugs!"

Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 Various

As, the sweet tones floated down the cliff Jim turned lazily to smile up at the speaker, and, raising his heavy basket of quahaugs, came leisurely up the steep sand-path, which seemed to shrink from his weight at every step: "Wal ', Sairy, I wa'n't a-thinkin' much o 'the water: I was a-thinkin' o 'thee, an' o 'what fayther said a little spell ago."

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

Gower raked a flat rock, white-hot, out to the edge of the coals and put fat quahaugs on it to roast.

Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Old Ezra Cahoon, of Harniss, was out in his dory stealin 'quahaugs from Seth Andrews's bed over nigh the Wapatomac shore.

The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Just now I've run over here to see about contractin 'for a supply of clams and quahaugs for our boarders.

The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

That's who makes wars like this dreadful one -- quahaugs.

Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

It was the business card of the firm to whom he sold his quahaugs.

The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

By the way he spoke of you only the other day, and jokingly said he wondered how mummies and quahaugs were mixing.

Galusha the Magnificent Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"What's the use of trying to beat anything sensible through the shells of them quahaugs?" snarled Captain Candage, with 'longcoast scorn for the inefficient.

Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900

He knows where to dig for clams, and where to tread for quahaugs without disturbing the oysters.

By The Sea 1887 Heman White Chaplin 1885