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"... I shall never forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat: for whom he himself used to go out and buy oysters, lest the servants having that trouble should take a dislike to the poor creature."
"When God made the oyster, he guaranteed his absolute economic and social security. He built the oyster a house, his shell, to shelter and protect him from his enemies... But when God made the Eagle, He declared, "The blue sky is the limit—build your own house!"… The Eagle, not the oyster, is the emblem of America."
"It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their names to eat an oyster."
"'Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out."
"The geology of is interesting. Differently from Europe, where the formations appear to have accumulated in bays, here along hundreds of miles of coast we have one great deposit, including many tertiary shells, all apparently extinct. The most common shell is a massive gigantic oyster, sometimes even a foot in diameter."
"Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster."
"It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together."
"... Oysters taste like the sea. This fundamental truth has been pointed out enough times that it easy to forget how extraordinary it is. Oysters taste like the sea. No other food does. Not lobster, not saltwater fish, not scallops or clams or even kelp. Beef tastes meaty, milk tastes creamy, but the comparison for oysters is not a taste or another food but always a place. And a place—the seacoast—for which many of us have romantic associations. From oysters I learned that what's important about good food is not just what it gives you, but where it can take you."
"As a consequence of their ability to accumulate potential pollutants, pearl oysters have been used as localized s of both s (Bou-Olayan et al., 1995; Al-Madfa et al., 1998) and s (Fowler et al., 1993). Furthermore, pearl oysters have also been shown to accumulate antibiotics such as and thus may serve as a useful biomonitor of antibiotic presence (McFarlane, et al., 2004). The wide global distribution of pearl oyster species also lends them to being a suitable candidate for regional or global environmental monitoring of . (Sarver et al., 2003; Gifford, 2006)."
"I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such a fool."
"An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says A whale's a bird?—Ha! did you call my love?— He's here! he's there! he's everywhere! Ah me! he's nowhere!"
"He was a bold man that first eat an oyster."