What is "oyster stew"

Usage examples of "oyster stew".

Placido displayed astonishment that she might suspect him of boiling the milk for her oyster stew.

People sold everything from home-canned chowder and oyster stew to books to frying pans to furniture to jewelry to hats.

Sweetbreads with sherry, thick slices of a baked calf's head, oysters and mushrooms, a fine she-crab soup and a brown oyster stew with benne seeds.

He counted two married couples, a silver-haired fisherman type scribbling in a notebook between bites of oyster stew, and three giggling college girls who were making a meal of salad and side dishes.

I went to the restaurant and had oyster stew and two draft beers and came back and called again.

In the winter Gerald had a mania for oyster stew, and always while he ate the stew he would complain the plate would soon be empty and his stomach would be too full for him to enjoy another plate.

All these things like oyster stew and clean underwear and fresh cigarettes were temporary things, little passing touches of pleasure, limited things, unimportant things.

There was a platter of big broiled ribs coaled with pungent sauce, a bowl of something smelling like oyster stew, a loaf of purple-tinted bread, and an enormous tankard of beer.

By the time things stopped shakin', I was swimmin' in about four gallons o' oyster stew the boys asked me to make.

He knew he should release her, but only the silent house waited-, and his pathetic oyster stew, and he wanted to keep her on the line for some deeper reason that he was unwilling to recognize.

He crossed to the table where he ladled the oyster stew into two bowls, placed them at opposite ends, and then tore off portions from a small loaf of bread.