Seafood in shells

Usage examples of mussels.

And when I am tempted to speak, I turn my attention to the black snails that feed on the algae covering the cordgrass, to the clam worms as big as small snakes that feed on dead razor clams, to the ribbed mussels that poke halfway out of the mud.

They made no plans, but fished, gathered mussels and abalones, and climbed among the rocks as the moment moved them.

She watched the small boys on a day when she had eaten nothing, and emulated them, gathering mussels from the rocks at low water, cooking them by placing them among the coals of a fire she built on top of the wall.

They had not intended to spend the afternoon, but found themselves too fascinated to turn away from the breakers bursting upon the rocks and from the many kinds of colorful sea life starfish, crabs, mussels, sea anemones, and, once, in a rock-pool, a small devilfish that chilled their blood when it cast the hooded net of its body around the small crabs they tossed to it.

A rig was coming for him in the afternoon, he explained, to cart the mussels back to Carmel.

There was a rattle of wheels and a voice calling from above where the sacks of mussels had been carried.

They were experienced campers themselves, as she quickly discovered when she saw the pots and pans and clothes-boilers for the mussels which they had brought.

In the meantime Billy and the men had undressed and scattered out after mussels and abalones.

Not until sunset did the merry crowd carry their pots and pans and trove of mussels up to the road and depart.

They would come down from those watchtowers and take our young women out from the fields when they were hoeing the maize and harvesting the sunflowers, or grab them when they were gathering mussels in the rivers.

Other women were harvesting the mussels that grew abundantly in the shallow waters, especially freshwater clams.

The loss of the giant mussels had been just the first of the extinctions.

Old Man had had his fill of the mussels he lifted his leg, let out a luxurious fart, and clambered painfully to his feet.

Jahna and Millo crept to the fire, threw on more mussels, and gulped down their salty flesh.

Emily wanted to stop for mussels and winkles at the shellfish stand, then for lemonade at a nearby cafe, claiming she was hungry and thirsty, and in a burst of willfulness she stamped her foot.