Protection for mollusc — flimsy boat

Usage examples of cockleshell.

If only there were somewhere a sheltered nook into which this cockleshell of a craft they were riding on might be driven, it would bring him great relief.

Or I shall wear a cockleshell, and he will know me and he will know me well .

Wave by wave they came, sailing in their cockleshell boats, through succeeding centuries.

He made no inquiry about Pasiance, but put us into his cockleshell and pulled for the cutter.

She was the type of woman whom small, diffident men seem to marry instinctively, as unable to help themselves as cockleshell boats sucked into a maelstrom.

We were both quiet for a while and I studied the little cockleshell in my fingers.

I called as the lad worked his oar to turn his cockleshell boat around.

The tiller went hard over and the cockleshell darted around like a mayfly.

She was floating down a river in a cockleshell boat inside the most titanic structure ever seen by a human eye, and a man who loved her was dying.

It did seem almost like an act of madness that two vessels, which by the side of those of the Spaniards were mere cockleshells, manned in all by less than eighty men, should attempt to enter a region where they would be regarded, and rightly, as enemies, and where the hand of every man would be against them.

Holy Land, Lententide in Rome, Holy Week at Compostella while their families were left starving at home, where they eventually returned decked with cockleshells to recount their adventures, and receive the applause and reverent congratulations of their lesser neighbors who had cravenly remained at home to work for their living.

Each year saw more of their silver cockleshells putting out from port, and the cheeks of those who blew the sails more violently distended.

I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc.

Huts and coarse, stony shelters lay perched on clefts, sometimes equipped with rude winches to lower cockleshell boats even smaller than the one they sailed.

Their cockleshell flotilla could fit the Haitian soldiers and Santo Domingans, just, but any kind of bad weather would lead to the possible loss of the boats, and perhaps the overcrowded Thunderbolt.