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Page view page image: the men and women were [wear] them suspen [ded] from the ear in little bunches or intermixed with triangular peices of the shells of the perl oister. the men also were them attached in

Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

He speaks of one who "looks as pale as the visard of the ghost which cries so miserably at The Theatre, like an oister-wife, 'Hamlet revenge.'"

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

* Hematopus ostrealegus, the will willet or oister catcher.

Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. 1823

He gave the English cocoa-nuts to eat, while he chewed betel and areka-nut, tempered with lime of burnt oister shells.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

So that, according to you, Mr Dash, a poet acts pretty much on the same principles with an oister-woman.

The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12 Henry Fielding 1730

_strato discumbitur ostro_, they straite sett downe att this oister table, where they are fast and doe fast, ffor _vinitur exiguo melius_, they make small meales, till the flames of clemency doe mitigate the

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson