I've seen men punish clams by the bushelby the barrelbut never did I see men shovel clams in by the cart load before.

He's as happy as a clam at high tide right now, I assure you.

They were used to snow, and they were as jolly as clams at high-tide.

Mr. Douglas confides the secret of his passion to the unloquacious clams of Rhode Island, and the chief complaint made against Mr. Lincoln by his opponents is that he is too Constitutional.

Tea and sugar, and silks and satins don't grow along with the clams on 'Yster Pond'"for so the deacon uniformly pronounced the word 'oyster.' Mary acknowledged the truth of what was said, but changed the subject.

"We'll turn the clams out of the basket, and fill that; but we mustn't put any crabs in the fish-car.

I've seen men punish clams by the bushelby the barrelbut never did I see men shovel clams in by the cart load before.

" When Olaf came with a basket and some short-handled hoes, the Doctor told Dodo she might take off her shoes and stockings and go down on the sandbar with Nat and Olaf, to dig clams for the chowder for dinner.

Then add one quart of clams from which the tough portions have been removed.

" Ford made no answer, but looked on very seriously while Dab skilfully slit up a tough old Dutch clam into bait.

The storm has driven some of them into the bay, where they do not usually come until later in the year; but in winter great flocks of Gulls live about our beach, clamming on the bar at every low tide.

You might as well try to hurt a clam with a pin.

He goes fishing and clamming for a living.