14 Verbs to Use for the Word cockles

And when he had worked for a while on the message, touching up the skillfully drawn characters with a pencil the mate to that which Victor had used, he sat back and laughed aloud over the result of his labours, with some appreciation of the glow that warms the cockles of the artist's heart when his deft pen has raised a cheque from tens to thousands, and he reviews a good job well done.

When Anne Catherine, while yet a child, was employed in weeding, she besought God to root up the cockle from the field of the Church.

When the fire died down people took some of the ashes home with them, either to keep them in the house as a preservative against thunder or to scatter them on the fields for the purpose of destroying corn-cockles and darnel.

This day commenced with moderate weather and smooth sea; at low tide found some cockles; boiled and eat them, but they were very painful to the stomach.

At the same instant her lee-quarter boat dropped into the water, with the crew in it, a boy of a mid-shipman scrambled down the ship's side and entered it also, a lieutenant followed, when away the cockle of a thing swept on the crest of a sea, and was soon pulling round under our stern.

We want as universally as possible the jolly life, men and women warm-blooded and well-aired, acting freely and joyously, gathering life as children gather corn-cockles in corn.

Jinny stared at her for a moment in astonishment from under the brim of her fine befeathered hat: "Have ye got any cockles to-day?"

My word, I wish I'd thought on axin' her to let us 'ave a quartI'm rale fond o' cockles.

Would ye like soom cockles?"

A swarthy oysterman, slender, with eyes like live coals, and enormous mustaches, had his stand at the door of the restaurant, offering cockles and shell fish of strong odor that had been half a week perhaps in ascending from the city to the heights of Vomero.

Do you never say your prayers?" Sally looked at him, and twisted open a cockle before replying.

I don't want none o' your cockles, as it jest falls outmy 'usband's gone to get me some.

Mr. Smithson, whose antecedents were as cloudy as those of Aphrodite, was a greater man than a peer whose broad acres only brought him two per cent., or half of whose farms were tenantless, and his fields growing cockle instead of barley.

"I'll bring ye th' cockles if ye'll coom up th' lane at dinner-time," she went on.

14 Verbs to Use for the Word  cockles