Sentences with 'oyster'
Example sentences and phrases with the word oyster and other words derived from it.
• « For the Babylonians, fifteen centuries before our era, the world was like a closed oyster surrounded by water, the Earth was a hollow mountain at its centre and the Sun, Moon and stars were "bodies within and without" that slowly danced in through the gates of the East and withdrew through the gates of the West. »
• « "If it was not so serious as to endanger their lives, but if they were assaulted at all, beaten and battered by blows of any kind, by snowballs, oyster shells, ashes, clubs, or sticks of any kind; it was a provocation, so the law reduces the offence of manslaughter, to manslaughter, in consideration of those passions of our nature, which cannot be eradicated. To your frankness and justice I submit the prisoners and their cause". »