shell-fish

They learned the ways of the fish and the shell-fish, and they invented hooks and lines, nets and fish-traps, and all the diverse cunning ways by which swimming meat can be garnered from the shifting, unstable sea.

CHAPTER X 2010

Great quantities of these shell-fish could be gathered in the bay near at hand, but the mountain Indians, who had heretofore lived on the flesh of mammal, did not take kindly to mollusks, and, indeed, ate the shell - fish only as a last resort.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Champlain observed: “All these tribes suffer so much from hunger that sometimes they are obliged to live on certain shell-fish, and to eat their dogs and skins with which they clothed themselves.”

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

In many parts of the New World this perversion was accompanied by another depravity of taste — confirmed cannibalism. 411 The forests and campos abounded in game from the deer to the pheasant-like penelope, and the seas and rivers produced an unfailing supply of excellent fish and shell-fish; 412 yet the Brazilian Tupis preferred the meat of man to every other food.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Champlain observed: “All these tribes suffer so much from hunger that sometimes they are obliged to live on certain shell-fish, and to eat their dogs and skins with which they clothed themselves.”

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Man is not as a tree, bound to one spot of earth; nor is he framed to cling to one bare rock, like the scarce animated shell-fish.

The Talisman 2008

The great cod lay below in tens of thousands, and gobbled shell-fish all day long; and the blue sharks roved above in hundreds, and gobbled them when they came up.

The Water Babies 2007

Now, perceiving how that it drew near to sundown, he bade the men haste and gather weed and carry it across to our camp; but one he sent along the shore to make a search for shell-fish among the weed; yet he himself ceased not to work at the divided log, and kept me with him as helper.

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' 2007

For to creatures void of motive power — shell-fish and other such creatures which cling to rocks and grow there — belongs Sense alone, void of all other modes of gaining knowledge; to beasts endowed with movement, in whom some capacity of seeking and shunning seems to have arisen, Imagination also.

Consolation of Philosophy 2007

But Apuleius was chiefly accused of having employed shell-fish, lobster patties, she-hedgehogs, spiced oysters, and cuttle-fish, which was celebrated for its productiveness.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007