We were still getting some oysters from waters in Louisiana and Texas and those may stop as soon as Rita makes landfall.

The Republic of Texas is no more.

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

It's 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.

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.