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What the hell is a SpongeBob? By Madeleine Urban Spongebob Hell

Clem tried to marshal his meaning to his tongue, By K.j. Charles Clem Tongue Marshal Meaning

My mother is a fish. By William Faulkner Fish Mother

E canchis amnia.Everything from shells. By Erasmus Darwin Shells Canchis Amniaeverything

Flounder, flounder, in the sea, Come, I pray thee, here to me; For my wife, good Ilsabil, Wills not as I'd have her will. By Harperperennial Classics Flounder Ilsabil Sea Thee Wife

bad lobster in a dark cellar. It By Charles Dickens Bad Cellar Lobster Dark

Charlotte sighed inwardly. She knew her mother was serious when she started referring to shellfish. What did that mean, anyway? What's so great about the world being your oyster? Does that mean it's really hard to open, and when you do, you have something slimy and gross on the inside? By Anne Ursu Charlotte Inwardly Sighed Shellfish Knew

the sea is made of blood By Charles Bukowski Blood Sea Made

On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell. By M.f.k. Fisher Moping Hand Flaccid Debauched Mollusc

You had room for four kids sitting or six standing up. It had been a pirate ship, Nemo's Nautilus, and a canoe for the Lenni Lennape among other things. Today the water was maybe three and a half feet deep. She seemed happy to be there, not scared at all. "We call this the Big Rock," I said. "We used to, I mean. When we were kids." "I like it," she said. "Can I see the crayfish? I'm Meg." "I'm David. Sure." She peered down into the can. Time went by and we said nothing. She studied them. Then she straightened up again. "Neat." "I just catch 'em and look at 'em awhile and then let them go." "Do they bite?" "The big ones do. They can't hurt you, though. And the little ones just try to run." "They look like lobsters." "You never saw a crayfish before? By Jack Ketchum Room Sitting Standing Nemo Nautilus

A wood that smells of the sea. By Nina George Sea Wood Smells

Crema Seamans," Ethan repeated thoughtfully. "It's like a soup made from ... various semens. A medley of semens. It's a flavour of Campbell's soup that got discontinued immediately.""Stop it, Ethan, you're being totally graphic," said Cathy Kiplinger."Well, he is a graphic artist," said Goodman. By Meg Wolitzer Seamans Ethan Crema Thoughtfully Repeated

You're a bum-rag covered in clart! By Scott Westerfeld Clart Bumrag Covered

the coast, irregular By Jules Verne Irregular Coast

Don't think they have them in New York City." She laughed. I didn't mind. "We get lobsters, though. They can hurt you." "Can you keep one? I mean, you can't keep a lobster like a pet or anything, right?" She laughed again. "No. You eat them." "You can't keep a crayfish either. They die. One day or maybe two, tops. I hear people eat them too, though." "Really?" "Yeah. Some do. In Louisiana or Florida or someplace." We looked down into the can. "I don't know," she said, smiling. "There's not a whole lot to eat down there." "Let's get some big ones." We lay across the Rock side by side. I took the can and slipped both arms down into the brook. The trick was to turn the stones one at a time, slowly so as not to muddy the water, then have the can there By Jack Ketchum City York Eat Laughed Side

The sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water By Virginia Woolf Water Sort Fish Good Fisherman

Spanish chorizo is a spicy cured sausage that's especially tasty with clams. By Tom Douglas Spanish Clams Chorizo Spicy Cured

The ShellThe sea fills my earwith sand and with fear.You may wash out the sand,but never the soundof the ghost of the seathat is haunting me. By Ted Hughes Shellthe Sea Fills Earwith Sand

Seaweed BrainWise Girl By Rick Riordan Girl Seaweed Brainwise

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster. By Ferran Adria Remember Lobster Good Sardine Preferable

A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle. By Ambrose Bierce Turtle Dead Deems Leech Penetrated

The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher. By Jorge Luis Borges Decipher Sea Idiom

The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins. By Dave Barry Stick Fins Fish Kind Seafood

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was. By Jeffrey Kluger Bell Excretes Jellyfish Pulsating Tassel

One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it. By Tom Colicchio Restaurant Jobs Opening Clams Seafood

Tangerine clam, and a professional desktop computer that suggested a Zen ice cube. Like bell-bottoms that turn up in the By Walter Isaacson Zen Tangerine Clam Cube Professional

On Sunday, something washed up on shore. By Susan Wiggs Sunday Shore Washed

Stupid little fish By Jettie Woodruff Stupid Fish

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems. By Francis Stokes Sea Poor Problems Preparations Worms

But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt ... we dispatched it with great expedition. By Herman Melville Explained Smoking Chowder Mystery Delightfully

I'm sorry I'm not a jellyfish. By Eva Morgan Jellyfish

If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don't know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise. By J.r.r. Tolkien Recipe Biscuitish Indefinitely Sustaining Entertaining

The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale. By Alexander Smith Rare Sea Shore Shells Brought

You can have my jellyfishI am not sellyfish By Ogden Nash Sellyfish Jellyfishi

Bright coral and sand spread thirty-five feet below, crisp in the air-clear water. Blue clouds of Creole wrasse parted as Hugh dropped. White and yellow flashes of yellowtail snapper flitting past. How could he have questioned if coming back here was the right thing? Bubbles rose from five buddy teams. Swimming five different directions. Hugh kicked hard after the nearest pair. By Tim W. Jackson Bright Crisp Water Coral Sand

you curdled clot of whores piss By Sara Douglass Piss Curdled Clot Whores

Astonishingly slimy and dangerous By David Baldacci Astonishingly Dangerous Slimy

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! By Daniel Dennett Sea Life Juvenile Squirt Wanders

I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore and carries the sound of the ocean surging through its body. By Edward Hirsch Body Tiny Seashell Secretly Drifted

THE SEAIn my room by the seashore,I can tell without going to the windowThat the boats sailing outside Are carrying a cargo of watermelons.Just the way I used to.The sea likes to hold its mirrorAcross the ceiling of my room:It likes to make me angry.The smell of seaweedAnd the fishing-ground poles pulled ashoreRemind the children who live by the seaOf nothing at all. By Orhan Veli Kanik Room Seain Seashorei Windowthat Boats

The world is my lobster. By Keith O'neill Lobster World

Like the Devil, the Norway lobster is known by a variety of different names: cigala in Spain, langoustine in France, Dublin Bay Prawn in Ireland. And in Italy, as well as the U.K., scampi. By Tom Parker Bowles Devil Spain France Dublin Ireland

Dorey says the key to chowder is letting the ingredients cure in the pot for a day before dishing it up, which is counterintuitive since fried clams are best right after they're dug. Personally, I think it's the chives in the chowder." Pensive, she studied her empty bowl. "Or the bacon. Or the parsley." Her eyes rose. "Maybe it's just the butter. Since Dorey's chowder is Maine style, more milk than cream, the butter shines. By Barbara Delinsky Chowder Dug Key Letting Ingredients

Oysters, clams, and cockles were cat's magic words, and like all good magic words they could take her almost anywhere. By George R R Martin Oysters Clams Magic Words Cockles

Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation ... By M.f.k. Fisher Hard Life Soundless Worse Motionless

All is fish that comth to net. By John Heywood Net Fish Comth

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself. By Rachel Carson Sea Life Curious Situation Arose

A conversation with Miss Zwida would lead me inevitably to talk about seashells, and I cannot decide what attitude to take, whether to pretend absolute ignorance or to call on a remote experience now vague; it is my relationship with my life, consisting of things never concluded and half erased, that the subject of seashells forces me to contemplate; hence the uneasiness that finally puts me to flight. By Italo Calvino Seashells Miss Zwida Vague Life

That would be the gentleman lobster, By C.j. Hauser Lobster Gentleman

There is an animal inside me,clutching fast to my heart,a huge crab. By Anne Sexton Crab Animal Inside Meclutching Fast

For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer! By Mehmet Murat Ildan Souls Answer Bored Sea

Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long. By Brendan I. Koerner Harold Braunhut Seamonkeys Hybrid Brine

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. By Charlie Chaplin Life Thing Jellyfish Beautiful Magnificent

Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves. By Big Sean Seafood Peeves Biggest Pet

In strange and beautiful wares. It sells the lovely animals of the sea, the sponges, tunicates, anemones, the stars and buttlestars, and sun stars, the bivalves, barnacles, the worms and shells, the fabulous and multiform little brothers, the living moving flowers of the sea, nudibranchs and tectibranchs, the spiked and nobbed and needly urchins, By John Steinbeck Sea Wares Strange Beautiful Stars

I live absolutely like an oyster. By Gustave Flaubert Oyster Live Absolutely

Very Like a Whale By Ogden Nash Whale

The sea calls us home By J.r.r. Tolkien Home Sea Calls

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves. By Le Testament D'orphee Veins Waves Seafoam Understand Language

Jellyfish do not respond to reason, they usually don't respond to kindness, and they will always show up to ruin a fun party if possible. By Kelly Williams Brown Respond Jellyfish Reason Kindness Show

There you go, wading in your clodhoppers through our private territory. By Harper Lee Wading Territory Clodhoppers Private

It says yes, in blue, in foam, in a gallop. It says no, then no. It cannot be still. My name is sea, it repeats, striking a stone but not convincing it. Then with the seven green tongues, of seven green tigers, of seven green seas, it caresses it, kisses it, wets it, and pounds on its chest, repeating its own name. By Antonio Skarmeta Blue Foam Gallop Green Sea

There is vast sea of all kind of creatures. By Lailah Gifty Akita Creatures Vast Sea Kind

There are monsters in the sea. By Francesca Zappia Sea Monsters

Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor. By Tom Douglas Catfish Flavor Nice Firm Texture

There was a tank of special flounder about fifteen feet away from the octopus tank," he said. The fish were part of a study. But to the researchers' dismay, the flounder started disappearing, one by one. One day they caught the culprit red-handed. The octopus had been slipping out of her tank and eating the flounder! When the octopus was discovered, Scott said, "she gave a guilty, sideways look and slithered away. By Sy Montgomery Flounder Octopus Tank Special Fifteen

A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy. By Walter Scott Aberdeenshire Finnan Flavour Inimitable Relish

The long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening. By Annie Proulx Closing Opening Horizon Lunging Clotted

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket. By Steven Pressfield Bucket Highest Treason Crab Commit

You make a very handsome dead eel, my husband,""For a boiled mollusk, you wear black quite well, my wife, By Grace Draven Eel Husband Mollusk Wife Make

I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed, By H.p. Lovecraft Bed Deep Sea Shuddering Nameless

That's coral!" she cried in astonishment. "We must be down in the deeps of the sea!"Well, wasn't that what you wanted?" said the trout. "I thought you wished you could see the sea!"I did," said Jane, looking very surprised. "But I never expected the wish to come true."Great oceans! Why bother to wish it then? I call that simply a waste of time. But come on! Mustn't be late for the party! By P.l. Travers Sea Coral Astonishment Cried Jane

A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie. By Travie Mccoy Travie Alaskan Shrimp Happy Pound

An enormous fish poked his head out of the water and stared at them. "Who are you?" he demanded."Avon Snail, at your service," said Avon."Edward Ant," said Edward. "But I am not at your service. By Avi Service Edward Avon Snail Avon

My taste includes both snails and oysters. By Marcus Licinius Crassus Oysters Taste Includes Snails

scrotum. By David Levithan Scrotum

This is a leviathan I am about to ship out to sea ... By Victor Hugo Sea Leviathan Ship

My mother was an oyster, And I'm the pearl. By Leigh Bardugo Oyster Pearl Mother

It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods. By Jean-Paul Sartre Clams Snails Shrimp Foods Matter

It's an alien.""Sand crab," Leon said. "It won't hurt you.""It sure is ugly.""Ugly never hurt a thing."I scoffed. "Oh, ugly has hurt some things. It's just that pretty hurts more.""Amen. By Maggie Stiefvater Sand Leon Ugly Alien Crab

As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood. By Quvenzhane Wallis Home Seafood Eat

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being. By Vera Nazarian Skin Rich Insides Laden Ocean

Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it By John Florio Fish Water Marreth Flesh Doth

Whats up, Seaweed Brain? By Rick Riordan Seaweed Brain

On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents. By Fred Allen Barnacles Presidents Ships Call Business

The chocolate raisins tasted somewhat fishy, but Lucy didn't care-chocolate was chocolate. She changed her mind however, when she realized that the raisins were tiny fish heads. By Angie Sage Lucy Fishy Chocolate Raisins Tasted

If you've seen a crab's mouth, all foamy and gross with whiskers and snapping bits, you can imagine this one didn't look any better blown up to billboard size. By Rick Riordan Mouth Bits Size Crab Foamy

The world is your lobster! By Arthur Daley Lobster World

Splendiferous. That's your word. It's yellow with six legs and it's crawling up your arm. By Natalie Lloyd Splendiferous Word Arm Yellow Legs

If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the side of the boat. By Sara Levine Pirate Adventure Knew Sailor Boat

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster. By Steve Scalise Gulf Oyster World Tastes Good

Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying in the sun, the carcasses just visible through an enveloping blizzard of flies. "You see, " said Bwenawa. "The water dries in the sun, leaving the salt. It's kang-kang [tasty]. We call it salt fish.""Ah," I said. "In my country we call it rotten fish. By J. Maarten Troost Bwenawa Ground Sun Brought Attention

Cofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word. By Christopher Moore Coworkers Cohorts Cofishesother Group Fish

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness. By John Green Barnacles Consciousness Container Ship

When they'd first come out in the morning, a single flounder lay flapping and puffing in the breezeway, one sad, swollen eye looking back toward the sea. By Dennis Lehane Morning Breezeway Sad Swollen Sea

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. By William Shakespeare Blabbing Gaudy Sea Remorseful Day

For the present you can just call me the Kingfish. By Huey Long Kingfish Present Call

Earth's sweat, the sea. By Empedocles Earth Sweat Sea

I like working with fish, so naturally I like seafood. By Roy Yamaguchi Fish Seafood Working Naturally

Get up seaweed brain By Rick Riordan Brain Seaweed