cockle
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“When our team went back a year later, it was just covered in cockle shells,” Barber said.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023
“This tells us that all of those nearly identical cancers came from a single cockle in the past,” Metzger said.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023
He was speaking from Rio where he is installing his follow-up work, 10,000 Lives, about the world of the Chinese cockle pickers who drowned on Morecambe Bay in 2004.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2016
The story of how 23 Chinese cockle pickers lost their lives in Morecambe Bay is to be made into a musical.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2016
It knows too much to risk having its radula, or tongue, nipped off by putting it between the partly-open valves of the dying cockle.
From Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them by Moss, E. G. B.
"I'm a hardened scientist, but it's even warmed the cockles of my heart," McCormack said.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
I considered the monkfish, the mackerel, the cockles.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025
And the vision of Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought or, indeed, Elon Musk being frog-marched off to the hoosegow will warm the cockles of many a heart.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025
Heart cockles and many other marine animals use a special form of calcium carbonate called aragonite to make their shells.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
“Bit o' news to warm the cockles of yer hearts.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails.
From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.
The leaves of a vellum book that have become cockled from damp or other causes may be flattened by damping them, pulling them out straight, and allowing them to dry under pressure.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Rooke, Noel
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.
From The Commission in Lunacy by Balzac, Honoré de
He further carried this out afterwards in the application of the deeper coloured, and usually softer, varnishes, which when manipulated by other masters of the same school, have frizzled or cockled from some cause.
From Antonio Stradivari by Petherick, Horace William
Plancine's swimming eyes looked down, looked upon a litter of perished rags of paper, and, lying in the midst of the rubbish, an ancient stained and cockled miniature of a powdered Louis Seize coquette.
From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph
It is 10 years since the Morecambe Bay cockling tragedy when the notorious tides and channels claimed the lives of 23 Chinese cockle workers.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2014
Why should she pretend not to know a friend—least of all when she’d been cockling?
From Pixie O'Shaughnessy by Groome, William H. C.
The book may now be shut up if a waterproof sheet is put at each end to prevent the damp of the cover from cockling the paper.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Rooke, Noel
More in the foreground, in the same direction, there spreads a troubled cockling sea of the Great Conglomerate.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)
Will you want me, uncle? because, if not, I shall go out early with Bill Corbett cockling.
From A Chapter of Adventures by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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