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And some things need to simply be placed into the ear canal of a shoreline surfing Cypraea maculifera and offered up with a little humility to the sun, the wind, or the day at hand like a fool's manna from heaven you don't get to eat but just watch explode little by little into shadows and light, shadows and light, shadow, then light.
How To Make Your Own Falling Stars, or Dreamland Begins at Sunset 2010
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Scholars hold different opinions. 37 Michèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens has demonstrated that the most frequent cowry species found in Tien tombs are Cypraea annulus Lin.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Europe, is Italian; _porcellana_ being in that language the name of those univalve shells forming the genus _cypraea_ of the conchologist, which have a high arched back like that of the hog (_porco_, Ital.), and are remarkable for the white, smooth, vitreous glossiness of the surface about the mouth of the shell, and sometimes, as in the common cowry (_Cypraea moneta_), over the whole surface.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 548, May 26, 1832 Various
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The general stature varied from six feet to six feet four inches; their complexion was a light café au lait; their hair was ornamented with cowries, strung so thickly as to suggest a skull-cup, whilst long streamers of elephants 'tails, threaded with the Cypraea and brass rings, hung down from the head behind the ears, covering the nape of the neck.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Cypraea globulus. taarlcmoerhoorn, Pnarißak, Paaytcmoer - Nauti - lus.
Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen Nemnich, Philipp Andreas, 1764-1822 1793
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The general stature varied from six feet to six feet four inches; their complexion was a light café au lait; their hair was ornamented with cowries, strung so thickly as to suggest a skull-cup, whilst long streamers of elephants’ tails, threaded with the Cypraea and brass rings, hung down from the head behind the ears, covering the nape of the neck.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Pijjebed. a) Cypraea asellus; b) Sttombus onis - cus.
Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen Nemnich, Philipp Andreas, 1764-1822 1793
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