Word: oystering
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...fleet of oyster pirates, consisting of twenty well-armed vessels, has been captured off the coast of Virginia...
...tide has exposed acres of oyster beds in the vicinity of New York, and the extreme cold has frozen the oysters. An oyster famine is predicted...
...latest method of making an oyster stew is to drive a couple of small oysters with rubber boots on through a pan of diluted milk. One of the boarding-houses in town has taken out a patent. The boys say that the stew is good and don't taste badly of the rubber...
SCENE. - Fast's study. On a table in the centre are dust-covered books, on top of which are empty sardine boxes and beer bottles; webs on the ceiling; beetles and spiders flitting through the air. Before the fire stands Fast roasting an oyster. Day breaking...
...economy, while the husband is merely a bond of union and a legal protector of the household. Accordingly he is paid and supported, not for his services, but for his presence..... He is a being creeping along the limits of animated and unanimated existence, and serving, like an oyster, as a middle link between plants and animals." I board at Memorial Hall; will not some one who boards outside inform me whether any specimens of these "gentlemen at large," with "meritorious wives and daughters," have come down to our time...