One warm night, when the Maclaughlins, Kingsnorth, and the oyster-agent had given themselves up to the delights of bridge, the other three strolled along the beach till they came to an old banca lying bottom up on the sand.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
Then we picked up Mac, and I lighted accidentally on this oyster bed, and we settled here.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
Mrs. Pipchin's theory taught "that it was wrong to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster."
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes