molluscs are murderers and the most shameless of cannibals.
"The Confessions of a Beachcomber"
E J Banfield
Oysters were always plentiful, but a diet restricted to the most delicate of molluscs palls on the palate even of a black fellow.
"The Confessions of a Beachcomber"
E J Banfield
We had little doubt that we should procure other fruit besides cocoa-nuts, while we might also obtain oysters or other molluscs, and perhaps be able to catch fish-though we should first have to manufacture hooks and lines or nets of some sort.
"Twice Lost"
W.H.G. Kingston