“Them were happy days, when we had all the money we needed to ride off the main pike from Williams and take a gape at the Grand Canyon.”

“They all try to out beat the other with the best impression of a gaper.”

“That blue-billed gaper probably came from Malacca, and the trogon too.”

“Gaper clams are edible and are heavily fished at spring tides.”

“In the shade of a sycamore grove, bikers sat cross-legged on idled Harleys, heckling the gapers and high-fiving each other.”

“Areas exhibiting mixed sand and mud constitute a relatively stable substrate in which typical sand-living animals, such as sand gapers, lugworms, and razor shells, dwell.”

“The starers, and wonderers, and gapers engross a very large share of the attention of all the sons of the type.”