And to-morrow, at dead tide, go down to the shore and wrap him in your plaid and put him upon a rock and begin to pick that shell-fish which is called limpet, and for your life do not leave the shore until such a time as the tide will flow so high that you will scarcely be able to wade in to the main shore."
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
McNab had done his best to move the parson who had accepted the Wirree as his cure of souls, but the young man stuck like a limpet, and there was no telling, the gossips said, how moral and church-going he might not make Wirreeford before he was done with it.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
A man of another temperament might have done so-and quite possibly have been right; but his effect on me was like tapping a limpet.
"The Man From the Clouds"
J. Storer Clouston