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The ups and downs of that bivalvular mollusk ever since are the subject of Novelist Clark's book�a witty blend of fact, fable and fine poetic nonsense.

From Time Magazine Archive

I make it into the open air and walk west, past the murderous mannequins in the windows, past the bivalvular City Hall.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

The adductor muscles of bivalve molluscs and crustaceans are, he shows plainly, the necessary consequence of the bivalvular condition.

From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)

"Two birds are here killed with one stone," for there is pleasure in catching, and a double pleasure in eating, these bivalvular creatures of the brine.

From Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Glazier, Willard W.

Well, after thinking a day or two, This doughty sucker imagined he knew About the best thing he could possibly do, To secure the bivalvular hermit.

From The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems by Various