Her crew then lowered a little cockleshell of a dinghy, which she carried inboard, and a tanned, red-bearded man pulled straight for the Commodore's galley.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Therefore she knelt in a cockleshell alone on a rushing river and sped through, a wilderness into appalling danger.
"The Maid of the Whispering Hills"
Vingie E. Roe
But you don't tell me you have come over from Saaron in that cockleshell of yours?
"Major Vigoureux"
A. T. Quiller-Couch