Why should she pretend not to know a friend-least of all when she'd been Cockling?
"Pixie O'Shaughnessy"
Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
All at once her distracted eyes met those of the girl from whom she had fled a little while before, the Cockling girl, who was seated very composedly on an out-jutting point of the sandhill, whence she must have had a good view of John and his recent struggle.
"North, South and Over the Sea"
M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
It has been a good lesson to me to keep my eyes open; and when I go Cockling again I won't lose sight of the boat, not if there were twenty vessels ashore."
"A Chapter of Adventures"
G. A. Henty