How To Use Cockle In A Sentence

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However a red tide can have implications for marine fauna and some organisms including cockles, lugworms and sea potatoes have been washed up onto Sligo beaches as witnessed by many beach users.
As mentioned in your article, mussels, cockles and perlemoen were in abundance.
The beach is composed entirely of the shells of "pipi" (small cockles); always, therefore, dry and pleasant to walk upon. Life of John Coleridge Patteson
In many ways this is rural France's most appealing region, an area of winding back roads, of lost-and-gone hamlets, of tree-smothered hills and of wheat fields bright with poppies and corncockles.

Below Greyabbey, I watched the oystercatchers breaking cockle shells on the rocks.
In one corner, you'll find an enclave of butchers, delicatessen and food stalls, including a cluster selling plump, briny Gower cockles and fresh laverbread. Swansea's top 10 budget eats
Their day-to-day diet is a mix of worms, lugworm, white rag, smashed up shellfish like razorfish, cockles and sand clams, small crabs, shrimps and even small fish, for they, like most sea fish, are a predator in their own right.
In the sovereign workmanship of Nature herself, what garden of flowers without weeds? what orchard of trees without worms? what field of corn without cockle? what pond of fishes without frogs? what sky of light without darkness? what mirror of knowledge without ignorance? what man of earth without frailty? what commodity of the world without discommodity? The Common Reader, Second Series
And some of them, such as poppies, cornflowers and corncockles are exquisitely beautiful as well.
Oudart was toping in his office; the gentlemen were playing at tennis; the Lord Basche at in-and-out with my lady; the waiting-men and gentle-women at push-pin; the officers at lanterloo, and the pages at hot-cockles, giving one another smart bangs. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
It took the opening credits of Roger Vadim's 1968 sci-fi send-up Barbarella -- a naked Jane Fonda floating in space to the accompaniment of the oh-so-'60s theme song "Barbarella, psychedella/There's a kind of cockle shell about you" -- to convince us otherwise. Michael Sigman: Memories of a Great Friend
Not cocked – cockled" – it was Alice who said this. The Wouldbegoods
The few works which treat on the subject have all become as obselete as "hot cockles" and "crambo. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841
The issues that I would like to focus on are the geoducks and whelks to start off with, and cockles and pipi.
Twelve popular shellfish gathering beaches in Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Northland and Waikato are being surveyed to see whether current levels of cockle, pipi and tuatua harvesting are ecologically sustainable. Latest Massey News
This country has never really got to grips with cold soups - soup is meant to heat us up, we think, comfort us with its heartiness and warm the cockles of our hearts.
Iron forks with three curved prongs, called craams, are sometimes used to scoop the cockles out of the sand.
In spring and summer we would pick mussels, cockles and winkles round the ‘glar’ or silt mud in the harbour.
The recipe shows its age: David is forced to sadly concede that, as clams are unobtainable in this country, mussels or cockles make an acceptable substitute – "but fresh ones, not the lethally vinegared kind in jars". How to cook perfect spaghetti alle vongole
He was shocked to discover it was a corncockle - a rare plant all of which is poisonous if eaten. The Sun
The large-scale operation went on for more than two hours as rescuers plucked the cocklers from the sands four miles from the coast.
Also try tippets of razorfish, cockle, mussel and especially small tellin clams found after storms washed up on the beaches.
The one at Sungei Road, though less fiery than the Borneo variety, is still a spicy hellbroth of fresh cockles, slices of fish cake and beehoon noodles in coconut milk, seasoned with garlic, red chilies, belacan dried shrimp paste, lemongrass, galangal root and turmeric. Zomg dalek cake!
Only the night before my visit another cockler had needed rescuing off the sands. Restaurant review: Midland Hotel
And I shall call the cockle-shells papa, for they are the biggest and strongest; and the dingle-bells shall be brother Hobart, and the cowslips brother Mother Goose in Prose
It is a variety of the American cocklebur, often called sea-burdock, or the [140] hedgehog-burweed, a stout and common weed of the western states. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
The island has an untouched oyster bed while the general area has mussel and cockle beds.
In our impatience to land, I and my friend left the schooner in a cockleshell of a boat, which upset in the surge, and we found ourselves floundering in the water. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
The sting nematode has a wide host range that includes corn, soybean, and numerous weeds, such as morning glory, crabgrass, and cocklebur.
And so the man walks around and around again and finally sees the cocklebur. Coyote Medicine
When the market moved to Cocklebury Road from its town centre site in 1952 the bell was ceremoniously handed over and struck at every market since.
Kew confirmed the corncockle was toxic if eaten, notably its seeds. The Sun
Linguine vongole lacked the advertised cockles, but here, the large, plump clams were clean and perfectly cooked.
Both cocklebur and magnolia blossoms must either be harvested and dried for future use or they may be purchased from Chinese pharmacies.
In the Vulgate it is retained and in popular French Wyclif renders it "darnel or cockle", and curiously enough the name of his followers, the Lollards, has been derived from a Latin equivalent, "lolium. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
Sheer senseless destruction to send in a cockleshell like the JERVIS BAY against the might of a pocket battleship, a folly and a bravado, that amounted to nothing less than madness. The Lonely Sea
While the cockles are steaming, melt 50g of the butter in a nonstick or well-seasoned heavy-based frying pan. Times, Sunday Times
Keep it (quoth he) for fear of thieves, for danger of enemies, lest when men be asleep, they oversow cockle among that good seed of wheat, which the Son of man hath sowed in His field. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
The light infantry will be hidden in the switchgrass, and, hopefully, avoiding the cocklebur. Fatal Circle
There are plants called cockle-burs whose seed-pods are provided with stickers in every direction, so that anything brushing against them is sure to pick them up. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga
In addition to corn it may feed on weeds, including cocklebur.
There's no accounting for some street names, in Southport where I grew up I was always puzzled by one "Cockle-Dick's Lane" When young it was a giggle, but of course it stems from a chap calling Dick who used to live down there and he used to be a cockler on the beach. British Blogs
With their whimsical ancient names such as corncockle, mousetail, fluellen, fumitory, downy hemp-nettle and lamb's succory, they have music as well as colour.
Unlike the famous verses bawled at sporting fixtures and stag nights, and in Irish-themed bars across the world named in her honour, this has no cockles, no mussels, no death of a fever, and no barra wheeled through streets broad and narra. Tart with a cart? Older song shows Dublin's Molly Malone in new light
I bent deftly and pilfered a little cockled cherry from between the very fingertips of her whose heart was doubtless like its -- quite hard. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance
I know how to eat everything you can gather on its rocky coast and bone-white beaches: razor shells, cockles, mussels, whelks, carrageen seaweed, winkles, crabs (velvet and red), conger eel, mackerel.
Father-of-three Andrew Cockle, 31, was taken to hospital with neck and chest injuries but died after emergency surgery.
There were three of them astern of us, cockleshell rowing boats, with three soldiers - Germans, I thought - in each, every one life-jacketed and armed to the teeth - as wicked looking a boarding party as I'd seen for a long time. The Lonely Sea
There were no cockle-shells, or tape-sandals, or staves, or scrips, or anything romantic and pious about the eight persons who set out for Hazelbridge that morning, more earnestly wishful to be good and deedful -- at least Oswald, I know, was -- than ever they had been in the days of the beastly Wouldbegood Society. The Wouldbegoods
Or you can admire the awe-inspiring views from the reasonably priced Worm's Head Hotel, where you can sample local specialties like laverbread (seaweed) and cockles. Summer Road Trips
Other imports include the poisonous corncockle from the Mediterranean, the Himalayan balsam and the New Zealand willowherb, an aggressive weed.
There were no cockle-shells, or tape-sandals, or staves, or scrips, or anything romantic and pious about the eight persons who set out for Hazelbridge that morning, more earnestly wishful to be good and deedful – at least Oswald, I know, was – than ever they had been in the days of the beastly Wouldbegood Society. The Wouldbegoods
Rich in iron and protein and packed with vitamins and minerals. laverbread is traditionally eaten fried with bacon and cockles for breakfast. WalesOnline - Home
And the cockle are the children of the wicked one. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
It's a mix of corn cockle, godetia, honeywort, and California poppies that came up on its own several years ago and has been self-sowing for repeat performances ever since.
As we sailed along the rock, we observed that it is covered with echini, polypii, barnacles, limpets, and crusted with white bivalves less than oysters or cockles, yet containing a fish not unlike the latter in appearance, and the former in flavour. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
An arable area at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens - part of the Go Wild festival - includes a crop with key colourful plants like common poppy, corn marigold and corncockle, plus some clover and a ‘game strip’ down one side.
And I am also telling you that all of this “digitality” doesn’t necessarily warm the cockles whatever those are of my technologically challenged heart. I’m Working on That
It warms the cockles of my female heart to know that such womanly wiles still continue to manipulate and convince.
Or has it been an accident that a nation which loved the sea and counted everything that floated human, sent its sons faring forth in cockle-shells to a land when there were still great spaces to be occupied? Imperial Plans in Education
Today a field awash with yellow corn marigold, mauve corncockle and white daisies is largely a historical memory. Times, Sunday Times
There were no cockled tin gutters here to catch the moisture trickling down the walls, the floor was green and slimy with two hundred years of it. Tour de Force
As is true of most bivalves bearing the name cockle, it looks something like a human heart when viewed from the side.
The only other items in the grave were bay and willow leaves and a single pierced cockleshell. Worcester Pilgrim
Savory-seekers can turn to the extensive housemade charcuterie selection, bruschetta with toppings like buffalo ricotta with favas and English peas, or eggy plates like a sunny side-up duck egg with grilled guanciale and pecorino fondue. clam cockles scallions and scrambled eggs on toast 18 grilled asparagus with poached egg in a bag and olive oil zabaione 18 potato frittato with frisse and scallion vinaigrette and roasted red bell peppers 8 sunny side up duck egg with grilled guanciale and pecorino fondue 14 The Clog
Loire was kneading his dough; his wife was sifting meal; Oudart was toping in his office; the gentlemen were playing at tennis; the Lord Basche at in-and-out with my lady; the waiting-men and gentle-women at push-pin; the officers at lanterloo, and the pages at hot-cockles, giving one another smart bangs. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
Mr McNulty visited the station in Cocklebury Road on Tuesday, while on a whistle-stop tour of north and west Wiltshire.
Police are still questioning seven people over the deaths of the Chinese cockle pickers.
Among species characteristic of this habitat are Russian thistle, cocklebur, witchgrass, inland Sea Rocket and velvetleaf. Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio
A council letter dispatched on Friday to explain the cockle bed closure decision met with a furious response from cocklers.
While Brits eat turkey at Christmas, Spaniards look forward to festive feasts of clams, crabs, cockles, mussels, octopus and goose barnacles.
Even in the bedroom there were embroidered pin-cushions, landscapes in cross-stitch, and crosses in folded paper, so elaborately cockled as to show the senseless labor they had cost. The Commission in Lunacy
It means the cockle quality has never been tested so the molluscs are deemed unfit for human consumption.
They can gather up to 30 tons a day in summer, which is around five million cockles, each one raked and sieved by hand.
These are usually razorfish, mussels and queen cockles.
Shellfish such as oysters, mussels, cockles, winkles, whelks and crabs were collected for food from the estuaries and sea shores.
It is a native insect which feeds on wild hosts including cocklebur, sunflowers, and common and giant ragweed, as well as soybeans.
And it warms the cockles of my heart to hear someone using the phrase "sysop" again. How Now Brownpau
At Kircubbin Bay, people were out at low tide with their rakes, collecting cockles and winkles.
There was a heavy sea running on Monday, and the boats were leaving harbour and being tossed about like cockle shells.
Print Liverpool Coastguard in more Ribble estuary cockler rescues Further rescues of cocklers have been carried out on the Ribble Estuary - the 26th in two months. BBC News - Home
Shellfish such as oysters, mussels, cockles, winkles, whelks and crabs were collected for food from the estuaries and sea-shores.
Other imports include the poisonous corncockle from the Mediterranean, the Himalayan balsam and the New Zealand willowherb, an aggressive weed.
For Bush, who is known to spend early-morning hours hacking at unwanted mesquite, cocklebur weeds, hanging limbs and underbrush only to go back for more after lunch, it borders on obsession. Hullabaloo
Naturally I look for something a little different such as Pepperami, garlic sausage meat, strong smelling cheeses, cockles or mussels.
Just what you need to warm the cockles of your heart, a spanking trio of good time garage rock ‘n’ roll.
As she was in the habit of obeying his commands very literally, and as a few hours after he left Lisbon a little cockleshell of a steamer came in, she embarked in this most unseaworthy boat the afternoon of the same day, though she had no proper accommodation for passengers. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
Laverbread is made from a seaweed puree, mixed with oatmeal and often cockles, then fried in bacon fat. Times, Sunday Times
From there, it is into the clams, cockles, mussels and scallops.
The natives are a leathery, insouciant people; well-heeled women in suggestive topcloths parade around the avenues like so many cockled peacocks, and the men are as manicured as the Egyptians, a tribe of smellsmocks and pinchfarthings jockeying for attention. I search the horizon...
Handsome his library will never be, for here there will be a whole set of paper-bound volumes lacking backs, here a folio strangely patched and mended, there a book in rather dirty vellum somewhat cockled by damp, and so on. The Book-Hunter at Home
Vegetation was not so completely destroyed; trees died and remained bare and pickled; some grasses suffered, but others of the ranker sort flourished, and great areas were covered by a carpet of dwarfed and stunted corn-cockles and elecampane set in grey fluff. The Shape of Things to Come
He was shocked to discover it was a corncockle - a rare plant all of which is poisonous if eaten. The Sun
So here you can order a single dish, maybe a delicious riff on paella comprised of lobster, langoustines, squid, baby clams and cockles in a saffron-spiked shellfish fumet, and still get a suite of hors d'oeuvres to start, a cheese course and dessert. 10 of the best restaurants in Paris
Here, specimens of the shallow subtidal-intertidal cockle Katelysia rhytiphora have moved up profile from lagoonal facies into advancing aeolian dune sediments.
Which brought me to the present: host to a flea circus, stuck to a cocklebur plant, with an unknown intruder watching me from the woods who was packing a butt load of cat magic. Changeling
It is something to have eaten of the dainties prepared for the ladies of the harem; but I think Mr. Cockle ought to get the names of the chief sultanas among the exalted patrons of his antibilious pills. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
In the Wash oystercatchers are innocent victims of the collapse of the estuary's cockle fishery.
Among species characteristic of this habitat are Russian thistle, cocklebur, witchgrass, inland Sea Rocket and velvetleaf. Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio
Those who had dared to pit this cockleshell against the unleashed might of the Vilayet could do naught but cling and wait. Conan The Unconquered
The young probably find a natural "culch" in the many shells, cockle and others, that strew the rock, sand, and clay. The Land of Midian — Volume 1
Kew confirmed the corncockle was toxic if eaten, notably its seeds. The Sun
Over 200 beers, ales, ciders and perries to warm the cockles are available to sample and buy. This week's new events
Clean the cockles or clams by soaking them in cold water for at least 30 minutes to remove any sand or grit.
In a saucepan, combine the reserved cockle liquid and piquillo pepper bottoms.
The best known are the cockles of the Glamorgan sands and laver, edible seaweed that is gathered around the south and west coasts.
The chef dishes it up with parsley sauce, in fish pie, and with samphire and cockles in his recent book Fish, Etc.
Eight to five you never heard the word amanuensis and you never saw a cocklebur.” The Black Mountain
The young probably find a natural “culch” in the many shells, cockle and others, that strew the rock, sand, and clay. The Land of Midian
I remember its lovely ageing details: the worn red brick, the cockled window glass, the weathered sandstone edgings. 'The Little Stranger'
Police and rescuers were called last night after reports that about 25 cocklers were stranded on the sands.
Add the wakame, red tosaka, clam and cockle meat, yuzu skin, and scallions and warm through.
I spent whole summers with a group of guys, chopping cockleburs and button weeds in the cornfields and talking the way teenage boys talk when they're off by themselves.
This bizarrely delicious lunchtime dish consisted of steamed cockles and fat udon noodles, all swimming in a greenish chili-cilantro broth.
Fossils of belemnite, cockles (cardium), and lamp-shells (terebratula) have been found in the chalk, and numerous echini, with the pentagon star on their base, are picked up in the gravels and called by the country people Shepherds 'Crowns -- or even fossil toads. John Keble's Parishes
It rankled in his mind like a cocklebur, raising question after question. A Man Of Honour
In those days there was usually a second hand clothes dealer somewhere in the district so Cockler was never short of a serviceable warm jacket and coat.
Also try tippets of razorfish, cockle, mussel and especially small tellin clams found after storms washed up on the beaches.
The cocklers are still there and the mess and smell along the shore gets worse by the week.
It was in tavern brawls; one was a rascally cockleman, and the other a rascally oyster-man. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
It received the name of the Cockle, from the escalop-shells of gold with which the collar of the Order was ornamented. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
The flowers of the corncockle have undivided petals and are reddish-purple.
And in the morning there was a cockleshell of a boat oared in by one of the men who had found it downriver. Ride Proud, Rebel!
And it is with that swashbuckle that they will travel the long way to Tipperary, cockleshell heroes to a man, deep in culchie country, to take on the rather flawed frigate manned by the current Kingdom crew.
Today a field awash with yellow corn marigold, mauve corncockle and white daisies is largely a historical memory. Times, Sunday Times
But the cusk is not fastidious as to bait, accepting clams, cockles, and herring readily.
There is a moment when the kitten pounces on the unsuspecting dragonfly, when the lost cockleshell is found and the little girl in a yellow bathing suit drains the seawater back into the sea … the noose comes tight against his throat. A MOMENT (ON THE GALLOWS) • by Bosley Gravel
And at some distance beyond the top of the hill he sat down on the bank beside a nettled ditch, and with his book pressed down upon the wayside grass struck a match, and holding it low in the scented, windless air turned slowly the cockled leaf. The Return
Shellfish such as oysters, mussels, cockles, winkles, whelks and crabs were collected for food from the estuaries and sea-shores.
Take Friday for example, a day that was marked by a complete lack of anything that could be described as conducive to a hearty and wholesome life, except for the tips which were great and warmed the cockles of my filthy black heart. Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
The menu is striking in its simplicity: cockles, Bath chap and pickled onion, devilled kidneys and potato cake or plaice with leeks and herbs.
Most bivalves lead a fairly stationary life, either anchored to rocks, like mussels, or buried in sediment, like razor-shells, cockles and clams.
There were multiple warnings two years ago from the local cocklers, desperately asking for licensing and quotas to stop the destruction but nothing was ever done.
It is a native insect which feeds on wild hosts including cocklebur, sunflowers, and common and giant ragweed, as well as soybeans.
A big bait is needed again, meat, corn, cockle, big lobworm etc.
Inculcating and deluding the masses with a multi-billion dollar barrage of agitprop and sophistry potent enough to penetrate the minds of the most adroit thinkers, the moneyed interests behind corporatism and exploitative Capitalism have created a false dichotomy that clings to our collective psyche like a cocklebur deeply embedded in a wool sock. Milton Lost: Can We Regain Paradise?
Also attracting interest was the Mudbank, a display of estuarine life including lugworms and cockles and a column of ‘mud’ showing how the estuary has changed and grown.
All the traditional English fare will be on offer during the day, such as roast beef, cockles and jellied eels, fish and chips, candy floss and popcorn.
The menu is striking in its simplicity: cockles, Bath chap and pickled onion, devilled kidneys and potato cake or plaice with leeks and herbs.
It's a heady mix of cool cafes and cockles, windsurfers and artists, beach volleyball and bookstalls, fresh fish and funky T-shirts.
They are also rich in cockles and for generations local people have gathered small bucketfuls of the shellfish to eat.
A most violent _gregale_ swept the bare beach of the harbour as we proceeded to the gardens and plantations of the Masheeah, and the restive prancing of the horse was not unlike the dancing about of the cockle-shell bark to which I had been condemned for the last ten days. Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
A high sea ran, and the light boat dived, and soared, and fell again, dancing like a cockleshell. Ultima Thule
Full blast," the Corporal's own expression, exactly described the setting out of the cockle-shell; that is, the eventful Monday morning when the doors of the first free kindergarten west of the Rockies threw open its doors. The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach
Spiny clotbur has upright growth habit, long shiny dark green leaves, cactuslike spines and seeds like cocklebur (which it is related to).

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