OYSTER

Related Subjects: Fish, Pearl

1. Nor brighter was his eye, nor moister
   Than a too-long opened oyster.—BROWNING, The Pied Piper
   

2. It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their name to eat an oyster.—WILLIAM BUTLER, Dyet's Dry Dinner
   

3. But four young Oysters hurried up,
   All eager for the treat:
   Their coats were brushed, their faces washed,
   Their shoes were clean and neat—
   And this was odd, because, you know,
   They hadn't any feet.—LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking-Glass
   

4. "Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . .. "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that station o' life."—DICKENS, Pickwick Papers
   

5. "It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together."—DICKENS, Pickwick Papers
   

6. How do you after your oysters?—Proverb
   

7. Why, then the world's mine oyster,
   Which I with sword will open.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
   

8. I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such a fool.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
   

9. An oyster may be crossed in love!—SHERIDAN, The Critic
   

10. He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.—SWIFT, Polite Conversation