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"Its a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together."
"He was a bold man that first eat an oyster."

Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats. In some species, the valves are highly calcified, and many are somewhat irregular in shape. Many, but not all oysters, are in the superfamily Ostreoidea.
"Its a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together."
"An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says A whales a bird?—Ha! did you call my love?— Hes here! hes there! hes everywhere! Ah me! hes nowhere!"
"Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster."
"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."
"... 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."
"I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but Ill take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such a fool."