pea-shell

‘I have sailed round the world in a pea-shell boat.’

The Lilac Fairy Book 2003

Perhaps you also have sailed round the wide world once in a pea-shell boat.

The Lilac Fairy Book 2003

The pea-shell boats had travelled so far that they only looked like little specks on the ocean.

The Lilac Fairy Book 2003

Everything was the same as before; the crow in the birch tree, the cat on the grass, and the pea-shell fleet on the shore.

The Lilac Fairy Book 2003

There was once a little boy whose name was Lars, and because he was so little he was called Little Lasse; he was a brave little man, for he sailed round the world in a pea-shell boat.

The Lilac Fairy Book 2003

Mrs. Pendleton, who was splitting a pea-shell with her thumb in order to ascertain the size and quality of the peas, murmured soothingly, "Just a minute, dear"; and the girl, finding it impossible to share her mother's enthusiasm for slaughtered animals, fell back again into the narrow shade of the stalls.

Virginia Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

'Come, then,' said the dream-boy, 'and let us sail in your pea-shell boats.

The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878

The pea-shell boats had travelled so far that they only looked like little specks on the ocean.

The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878

Little Lasse straightened himself up stiff, and answered: 'I have sailed round the world in a pea-shell boat.'

The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878

THERE was once a little boy whose name was Lars, and because he was so little he was called Little Lasse; he was a brave little man, for he sailed round the world in a pea-shell boat.

The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878