How To Use Cockleshell In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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The only other items in the grave were bay and willow leaves and a single pierced cockleshell.
Worcester Pilgrim
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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
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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
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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!
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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.
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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
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A high sea ran, and the light boat dived, and soared, and fell again, dancing like a cockleshell.
Ultima Thule
