"Clams" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... clams at high water," said Mason, "but I should like to have it thoroughly understood that I am next in ...
— A Voyage with Captain Dynamite • Charles Edward Rich
... clever host would know how to get out of this; he would start some other subject. I can think of no other subject. Happy thought: gradually glide into American cookery, clams, canvas-backed ducks, what is that dish with a queer name—Jumbo? I don't feel as if it were Jumbo. Squambo? Terapin soup? It sounds rather like the Hebrew for a talisman, or an angel of some sort. However, they ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, April 23, 1892 • Various
... laughed outright, and someone suddenly abstracted the distasteful clams and substituted for them a golden and glorious soup, and music sounded forth from some invisible ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner
... observed, "By jingo, this here's a fix; I've asked my family to hand over the cash to support these carpenters of mine, and they say they'll see me——; well, never mind what, and now that whole raft of boys, who were earning money for me on the ferry, are digging clams or gone to farming, and when I want to go across the river I have to go with Bull or the Dutchman, and pay them for it, instead of getting money for doing what they do, myself." His boys, who were thrown ...
— Free Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying Trade • John Codman
... remember that Oeland has lain in the sea for a good many years, and in the course of time all the things which tumble around with the waves—sea-weed and sand and clams—have gathered around it, and remained lying there. And then, stone and gravel have fallen down from both the eastern and western strongholds. In this way the island has acquired broad shores, where grain and flowers ...
— The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Selma Lagerlof
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