conch

The door was open behind them, held back by a big pink conch shell with hints of sea sunsets in its smooth inner convolutions.

Cries and yells of warning and anger were flying over the quiet water, and somewhere a conch shell was being blown with great success.

A milkman was distributing the contents of his cans from door to door; and the harsh peal of a fisherman's conch shell was heard far off, around the corner.

The sun poured down its burning rays upon the heathen deities of marble and bronze: it raised the temperature of the water in the conch shells, and ripened, on the walls, those magnificent peaches, of which the king, fifty years later, spoke so regretfully, when, at Marly, on an occasion of a scarcity of the finer sorts of peaches being complained of, in the beautiful gardens there - gardens which had cost France double the amount that had been expended on Vaux - the great king observed to some one: "You are far too young to have eaten any of M.

After which superb display she retired, escorted by Jamie, both making a fearful din blowing on conch shells.

Also, we were blowing conch shells, singing war songs, and striking the sides of the canoes with our paddles.

The design of the oak and mahogany cross banding along with the conch shell inlay and other details makes this piece indigenous to the area.

'It's a bit like a conch shell -quite rough on the outside and smooth on the inside,' explains Julia Barfield, who founded MSA with her husband David Marks ten years ago.

Materials scientists can learn a lot from animals, says Arthur Heuer of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he has studied the conch shell for clues to materials design.

They did see a scorpion-shaped mark on the conch shell they bought.

You could listen to it like a conch shell, an impossibly busy, serial music that compounds and accelerates, on and on.

He also has a collection of other antique products including a black conch shell among other things.