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  • Thus it comes to pass that on one tidal river a certain creek, covered with salt sea-water at high tide, but showing only an expanse of muddy flats at low water, is called 'Cockles' Peep Out. '

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

  • "Cockles" by These Are Powers, you'll be as excited as we are for this show.

    92Y Blog 2009

  • Don't know if it was my harassing Emails or what, but it warms the Cockles of my heart it does to see them taking the lead once again like Sir Joyce Hornady!

    who stamps frontier on 30-o6 bullets 2010

  • Don't know if it was my harassing Emails or what, but it warms the Cockles of my heart it does to see them taking the lead once again like Sir Joyce Hornady!

    who stamps frontier on 30-o6 bullets 2010

  • "Molly was pretty, sweet and a fishmonger, and her ghost still hangs around Dublin crying: 'Cockles and mussels'."

    Tart with a cart? Older song shows Dublin's Molly Malone in new light 2010

  • I was looking and reading other articles about Warming the Cockles: Living, Breathing, Shopping, and yours is the one with the most interesting info.

    Warming the Cockles: Living, Breathing, Shopping BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Born Hendrik Marsman in St. Pancras, Netherlands in 1937, Bernlef (a pen name to which he added the first initial to separate himself from an earlier Dutch author), made his literary debut with Kokkels (Cockles) in 1960.

    J. Bernlef [Hendrik Marsman] greenintegerblog 2008

  • But because I would be loth to lye, so soone as I departed thence, I met with Maso de Saggio, who was a great Merchant there, and whom I found cracking Nuts, and selling Cockles by retale.

    The Decameron 2004

  • In the Middle an Ambler of Cockles, or roast Lobster.

    English Housewifery 2004

  • She was not content, however, without some of the “Cockles,” a single box of which has performed six of those “miraculous cures” which rejoice the hearts and fill the pockets of patent medicine makers!

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

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