Stepping to the kitchen door, I uttered the word "cod" with great emphasis, and resumed my seat.

In a few moments the savoury steam came forth again, but with a different flavor, and in good time a fine cod-chowder was placed before us.
We resumed business; and while plying our spoons in the bowl, thinks I to myself, I wonder now if this here has any effect on the head?
What's that stultifying saying about chowder-headed people?
"But look, Queequeg, ain't that a live eel in your bowl?
Where's your harpoon ?" Fishiest of all fishy places was the Try Pots, which well deserved its name; for the pots there were always boiling chowders.

Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes.

The area before the house was paved with clam-shells.

Mrs.Hussey wore a polished necklace of codfish vertebra; and Hosea Hussey had his account books bound in superior old shark-skin.