A book on oysters with an oyster knife, for example.

However, I still think it had more to do with my stubby oyster knife.

With a towel, protect your hand against slips of the oyster knife.

Pry the shell back and forth with the oyster knife.

Behind it stood a man in a white apron with an oyster knife in his hand.

Dawn was breaking, chiselling the horizon open like a blue steel oyster knife.

It was recently suggested to me that a church-key can opener also makes a good oyster knife in a pinch.

Drew cracked a shell, then used his oyster knife to cut out the small, tender nugget inside.

The day, the expenditure of emotion - the oyster knife he has been inserting into these women's lives - have tired him.

Take a pointed oyster knife in one hand and thick towel or glove in the other.

With an oyster knife, scrape away any barnacles.

"I can't pry Julia loose from the kitchen day or night - not even with an oyster knife," Paul wrote to a friend.

An oyster knife has a short, thick blade that is used to pry open oysters and separate their meat from the shell.

To open oysters, use an oyster knife, a bottle opener or any sturdy but not too sharp knife.

Hurston wrote that she was too busy eating well and sharpening her oyster knife to feel victimized by racism.

He wore his old khaki shirt open at the neck, and beside him was a bag of oysters and in his hand an oyster knife.

A clam knife is not as pointy as an oyster knife and has a sharper cutting edge.

Exemplary is the distinctive Parmesan cheese knife, which is short, thick, and stubby, like an oyster knife.

Sur la Table's sturdy $12.95 oyster knife, used by many professionals, has a two-and-three-quarter-inch blade and an polypropylene handle that's easy to grip.

Gov. Michael N. Castle, a Republican, stopped by and was asked if he felt comfortable among 500 enrolled Democrats bearing oyster knives.

We advise, and then they do their own buying') I have seen his maxims work on customers' wallets the way oyster knives work on oysters."

A treatise could be written on the art of opening an oyster, but for starters use a commercial oyster knife, either with a straight or curved-tip blade.

A smaller, lethally sharp, wood-handled oyster knife from France is $14 at Williams-Sonoma, which also has a terrific $21 oyster mitt.

A few years ago, I visited friends in New Orleans: half a sack of oysters in a house where I expected to find an oyster knife, but alas only a screwdriver.

A pu'er knife, which is similar to an oyster knife or a rigid letter opener, is used to pry large horizontal flakes of tea off the cake to leaf breakage.