Prized seashell

Usage examples of conch.

They carried no fishing licenses, but had a boatload of illegal booty, including undersize and out-of-season lobster, 458 queen conchs and the remains of a rare loggerhead turtle.

Next to her was a canvas bag, a pile of bleached conchs, and some woebegone starfish.

Huge Barnett and the other Conchs had plenty to say at first, but over the years, Barnett had shut up about the gays.

It took fully two hours to collect thirty suitable conchs, and four of those might cause a lifting of Mr.

Tate should have no trouble convincing tourists that the conchs would make excellent doorstops, paperweights, or instruments through which children and guests could listen to the surging drum of distant ocean waves upon the beach.

By the time Steve had located two sufficiently large conchs, Doris, Karl, and Ted Raymond had transferred the forty-four shells to the beach, and had stood them up with spiral end toward the sun.

Steve stood his two conchs up beside the others, washed his hands in the salt water, and joined the trio at the boat.

They stopped by the dinghy long enough to stand the dozen conchs they had managed to collect upright in the sand.

The tide was particularly low, enabling Steve and Karl to locate the conchs quite easily.

Through the hot, stifling night the temple gongs boomed and the conchs roared.

Outside, the gongs and conchs brayed and thundered and the priests gashed themselves with copper knives.

Outside, the moan of the tortured thousands shuddered up to the stars which crusted the sweating Vendhyan night, and the conchs bellowed like oxen in pain.

It dangles, now, on a piece of green string: her slender index finger, reduced to bare bones but still undeniably elegant, the three phalanges from tip to the base knuckle, clinking against the little conch shells and miniature bivalve fans and trumpet shells and tiny spirals similar to the whorled homes of snails.

The boldest, darkest lines of blue and brown, ancient ideogrammatic symbols of fish, bird and conch were extended in the movement of two rounded shoulder-blades from the matt slope of the neck to their perfect centring on the indented line of spine, rippling as shadowless store lighting ran a scale down it.

The conch shell proclaiming the departure of the troops rang out over the sleeping houses of Kofu several times before the sun rose.