Cowry

The interior walls rose like those of a great chimney, gleaming dully like Cowry shell, or alabaster as thinner patches let through a diffuse form of sunlight and cast the place in amber.

Watchman: Babel Series Part One | SciFi UK Review 2008

Cowry money would not retreat from markets so easily.

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

Abridged from "Exchange rate between cowry and other types of money, Yunnan, 1280 – 1647," in Hans Ulrich Vogel, "Cowry Trade and Its Role in the Economy of Yunnan: From the Ninth to the Mid-Seventeenth Century (Part II)," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient vol. 36, no.

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

Cowry shells and beads were among the first items used as currency.

Money Matters 2010

Cowry money circulated in Yunnan until the second half of the seventeenth century, long after the Mongol conquest.

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

Cowry shells and beads were among the first items used as currency.

Money Matters 2010

Cowry shells have bought slaves on the African coast, and wampum answered for money with the Indian, The Carthaginians, Frederick II. at the siege of

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Cowry shells have also been employed, both in the Persian Gulf and the Pacific, to decorate the bows of boats, probably for the dual purpose of representing eyes and conferring vitality upon the vessel.

The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith

Eldritch, and Cowry, fateful three of their period, avenged and scourged both innocence and naughtiness; innocence, on the whole, the least, when their withering suspicion of it had hunted the unhappy thing to the bank of Ophelia's ditch.

The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

The Ladies Endor, Eldritch, and Cowry sifted their best.

The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868