conch-shells

Not so, says Kautilya, for with the exception of blankets, skins, and horses, other articles of merchandise, such as conch-shells, diamonds, precious stones, pearls and gold are available in plenty in the South.

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

Charley Le Grant, a senior patrolman, orders the capture of the six shrimp-poaching junks and amid the yelling, pistol shots, and blowing of conch-shells, the Narrator (patterned on young Jack London) boards one of the Chinese vessels after the Reindeer's bowsprit "like a monstrous hand, reached over and ripped out the junk's chunky mast and towering sail."

“. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .” 2008

The two stones by the path were painted yellow; the outhouse was so overmodestly masked with vines and lattice that it was not concealed at all; the last iron dog remaining in Gopher Prairie stood among whitewashed conch-shells upon the lawn.

Main Street 2004

Porgy now began to pervade the air with an astringent perfume of the sea: none of your Fulton Market smells of stagnating fish, but a clean, wholesome, coralline odor, such as we may imagine supplied to the Peris "beneath the dark sea" by the scaly fellows in the toilet line down there, who are likely to keep it for sale in conch-shells, -- quarts and pints.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

Mrs.S. was so enterprising, and, I must say, so unæsthetic, as to try to concoct a meal from the occupants of some of the large conch-shells taken from the beach, cooking it for a considerable length of time in a large brass kettle, the only available utensil.

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton

I saw them all in a picture at home, of a beautiful lady sailing in a car drawn by dolphins, and babies flying round her, and one sitting in her lap; and the mermaids swimming and playing, and the mermen trumpeting on conch-shells; and it is called

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

The sounds of harps and cymbals and lyres and timbrels blended with those of conch-shells and antelope horns.

When Dreams Come True Ritter Brown

But I at once knew that very valuable pearls must often be found in conch-shells and deep-sea oyster-shells, as the diver scraped in all of both that he could find.

Lord Dolphin Harriet A. Cheever

The approach of the ministers was announced by the beating of drums (which are sometimes carried on the shoulder and struck by the palm of the hand) and the blowing of conch-shells, each instrument being sounded three times in succession, at short intervals.

Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs Jacob Mortimer Wier Silver

It abounded also with many a hill formed of the bodies and bones of elephants and steeds, and human heads and skulls lay stretched over it like conch-shells.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli