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...a bitter tear. Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll 28 “O Oysters, come and walk with us!” The Walrus did beseech. ... ...not choose To leave the oyster bed. But four young oysters hurried up, All eager for the treat: Th... ...ecause, you know, They hadn’t any feet. Four other Oysters followed them, And yet another four; An... ...ted on a rock Conveniently low: And all the little Oysters stood And waited in a row. “The time ha... ...ugh the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll 29 “But wait a bit,” the Oysters cried, “Before we have our chat; For so... ... besides Are very good indeed— Now if you’re ready Oysters dear, We can begin to feed.” “But not o... ... dear, We can begin to feed.” “But not on us!” the Oysters cried, T urning a little blue, “After s... ...treaming eyes. Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll 30 “O Oysters,” said the Carpenter. “You’ve had a pleasant run! ... ...alrus best,’ said Alice: ‘because you see he was a littlesorry for the poor oysters.’ ‘He ate more than the Carpenter, though,’ said T weedledee. ‘...

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...bscribe. “ Its flavor when cooked is more exquisite far Than mutton, or oysters, or eggs: (Some think it keeps best in an ivory jar, And som...

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...: [Off stage.] Columbine. Your mind is made of crumbs,—like an escallop Of oysters,—first a layer of crumbs, and then An oystery taste, and then a lay...

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...ys hungry.” “I love to eat,” he protested. “W ell, we’ll make some creamed oysters; how would that do?” suggested Blix. Condy rolled his eyes. “Oh, sp... ...at do?” suggested Blix. Condy rolled his eyes. “Oh, speak to me of creamed oysters!” Then, with abrupt solemnity: “Blix, I never in my life had as man... ...sters!” Then, with abrupt solemnity: “Blix, I never in my life had as many oysters as I could eat.” She made the creamed oysters in the kitchen over t... ...s spoiled,’ he wrote. ‘I’ve got ptomaine poisoning from eating the creamed oysters last night, and am in for a solid fortnight spent in bed. Have pass... ...ish peddler who had just turned into the street, “we can go fishing.” “For oysters, perhaps.” But the idea had caught Condy’s fancy. “Blix!” he exclai...

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...Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mush- rooms thrown in. It’s a pudding to put a ma...

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... on a chair, In attitudes of blank despair: Phantasmagoria & Other Poems 38 Oysters were not more mute than they, For all their brains were pumped aw...

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...dheart had gone before him, even among these children of Nature. Turtles and oysters were now produced in astonishing num bers; and on these and yams...

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...iful ham- mers I have ever seen. We also brought up some sea- slugs, pearl-oysters, and a dozen little turtles that were reserved for the pantry on bo... ...en often pull them off with pincers; but the most common way is to lay the oysters on mats of the seaweed which covers the banks. Thus they die in the... ...we found ourselves at last sur- veying the oyster-banks on which the pearl-oysters are reproduced by millions. Captain Nemo pointed with his hand to t... ...ed by millions. Captain Nemo pointed with his hand to the enormous heap of oysters; and I could well understand that this mine was inexhaustible, for ... ...ottom, about five yards deep, he went on his knees and filled his bag with oysters picked up at random. Then he went up, emptied it, pulled up his sto... ... which they adhered by means of their strong byssus. And how many of those oysters for which he risked his life had no pearl in them! I watched him cl...

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...ucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince pies, plum puddings, barrels of oysters, red hot chest nuts, cherry cheeked apples, juicy oranges, lusci... ...ed berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, pud dings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly. So d...

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...e, sweet marjoram, and a little winter savoury; to these put some pickled oysters, and some anchovies, two or three; both these last whole, for the a... ... two or three; both these last whole, for the anchovies will melt, and the oysters should not; to these, you must add also a pound of sweet butter, wh... ...ree or four oranges. Lastly, you may either put it into the Pike, with the oysters, two cloves of garlick, and take it whole out, when the Pike is cut... ... and put them in your Carp, with four or five whole onions, twenty pickled oysters, and three anchovies. Then pour upon your Carp as much claret wine ...

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...is beard, his pearl, his little round stom- ach, and his sweet smile. Only oysters know how to smile in this way; cool, gentle, waggish, and yet inexp...

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...t may be a wrong one; but, I never did like Natives, except in the form of oysters. So, when Christian George King, who was individually un- pleasant ...

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...f; and so he lived on stewed chicken, pate de foie gras, asparagus, cooked oysters, sardines—on all sorts of abominable sham delicacies out of tins. M...

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...ncluding two or three choice spir its, who, having indulged too freely in oysters and champagne, were found lying insensible on their backs in unfreq... ...on the table; and at every supper, at least two mighty bowls of hot stewed oysters, in any one of which a half grown Duke of Clarence might be smother... ...s to poles, and dan gling there, announce, as you may see by looking up, ‘Oysters in every style.’ They tempt the hungry most at night, for then dul... ... fowl, in these American Notes – Dickens 93 latitudes, the swallowers of oysters alone are not gre garious; but subduing themselves, as it were, to... ...e a backway to somewhere else, but is an indepen dent building in itself, oysters are procurable in every style. At the third, which is a very, very ...

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...andy neat, vile the t’other one—him in the bar nacles—has got a barrel o’ oysters atween his knees, which he’s a openin’ like steam, and as fast as h... ... faint and distant glimmering of reason. The man to whom the order for the oysters had been sent, had not been told to open them; it is a very difficu... ... upon to stop too. When the punch was about half gone, Sam ordered in some oysters from the green grocer’s shop; and the effect of both was so extreme... ...table Scotch breakfast, and then went out to a slight lunch of a bushel of oysters, a dozen or so of bottled ale, and a noggin or two of whiskey to cl... ...er. ‘Sammy, pull the bell.’ Sammy complied; and the porter, cold beef, and oysters being promptly produced, the lunch was done ample justice to. Where... ...chman with the hoarse voice, who took an imperial pint of vinegar with his oysters, without betraying the least emotion. ‘Mr. Pell, Sir,’ said the eld...

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...he huge quantity of fish which he saw in the window. There were barrels of oysters, hecatombs of lobsters, a few tremendous-looking crabs, and a tub f... ...iquity, he entered, and modestly asked a slatternly woman, who was picking oysters out of a great watery reservoir, whether he could have a mutton cho... ...e, endeavouring to distinguish the different scents arising from lobsters, oysters, and salmon. Unknowing as Mr Harding was in the ways of London, he ...

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...n the public streets are marine stores, hard bake, apples, flat fish, and oysters. The streets present a lively and animated appearance, occasioned c... ...g. ‘It’s a wery remarkable circumstance, Sir,’ said Sam, ‘that poverty and oysters always seem to go together.’ ‘I don’t understand you, Sam,’ said Mr... ...m, ‘is, that the poorer a place is, the greater call there seems to be for oysters. Look here, sir; here’s a oyster stall to every half dozen houses. ... ... think that ven a man’s wery poor, he rushes out of his lodgings, and eats oysters in reg’lar desperation.’ ‘To be sure he does,’ said Mr. Weller, sen... ...rder that he may repose in safety on the half dozen barrels of real native oysters, all the property of Mr. Pickwick, which have been arranged in regu... ...ees and hedges. Mr. Pickwick was busily engaged in counting the barrels of oysters and super intending the disinterment of the cod fish, when he felt...

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...ng this monstrous breakfast—advisedly so called in view of six dozen Osten oysters, six cutlets a la Soubise, a chicken a la Marengo, lobster mayonnai...

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... Vidame. “I met him there. He was a big man with an incredible passion for oysters.” “However many did he eat?” asked the Duc de Grandlieu. “Ten dozen... ...and he died through an accident.” “By accident! Nature prompted him to eat oysters, so prob- ably he required them; for up to a certain point our pre-...

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... then see if we don’t take little Jacob to the play, and let him know what oysters means.’ ‘I hope plays mayn’t be sinful, Kit, but I’m a’most afraid,... ...ay devoted to a whirl of entertainments, and little Jacob was to know what oysters meant, and to see a play. All manner of incidents combined in favou... ...m Christo pher Nubbles, ‘sir,’ to bring three dozen of his largest sized oysters, and to look sharp about it! Yes, Kit told this gentleman to look s... ...ng back with the newest loaves, and the fresh est butter, and the largest oysters, ever seen. Then said Kit to this gentleman, ‘a pot of beer’—just s... ... sympathy. But the greatest miracle of the night was little Jacob, who ate oysters as if he had been born and bred to the business—sprinkled the peppe... ... in this prolonged spiritual nourishment any thing half as interesting as oysters, was alternately very fast asleep and very wide awake, as his incli... ... Bethel, and who, by reason of her backslidings in respect of Astley’s and oysters, was now frolicsome and rampant. Kit, having been apprised by lette... ...ttle Jacob, as he appeared in those remote times when they taught him what oysters meant. Of course there was an Abel, own godson to the Mr Garland o...