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Back to that shell: the shell is a self-assembling material.— Janine Benyus shares nature's designs
Resurfacing with something like sand or a shell is a clear indication to the other divers on the boat that you were actually successful in reaching the bottom.— TravelPod.com Recent Updates
Why the shell was there no one could conjecture.— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
Under ordinary circumstances it remains firmly fixed in position; but when it becomes necessary to fire a torpedo-shell the solid point is made to slide in along a grooved tube for a certain distance; the shell is then placed in the tube and fired, when the solid point follows it out and becomes again securely fixed in its former position.— The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure

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