clam diggers

Then I thought the non-celebrities would clam up because the cameras would make them nervous.

The recovery of the oyster, clam and other edible shell-fish is also a feature of the work which the Lake Company has in view.

Its shores were long stretches of mud-flats, corrugated everywhere with thousands of clam-holes.

Then I saw that the two halves of the clam-shell bucket were slightly open, just wide enough to let me squeeze in.

But he and mephistopheles joined a company of successful diggers going down with their swag.

The gold was found on the carcass, and the diggers went coolly back to their work.