snail-shells

In some of the graves, archaeologists found carved bones and snail-shells, deer horns, necklaces and bracelets made from shells, but there was no concrete evidence of offerings to the dead or to dieties.

Peruvian Finds Date Back to 3500 BCE Jan 2008

Each one was equipped with a long, pointed rush for a spear, and smooth snail-shells to cover their heads.

Armor 2007

Each one was equipped with a long, pointed rush for a spear, and smooth snail-shells to cover their heads.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Hermit crabs have a soft, squiggly, swirly butt talk about scary and they protect this unshelled rear-end into borrowed snail-shells.

Japanese Snack Review: Tamagogani “Meisauki” | The Anime Blog 2006

After all this had been fully explained to them, with a long talk and discussion between every sentence, I could see that I had made a favourable impression; and that very afternoon, as if to test my promise to buy even miserable little snail-shells, a dozen children came one after another, bringing me a few specimens each of a small Helix, for which they duly received

The Malay Archipelago 2004

There were soft rugs and cushions of all the colours of the rainbow, and beautiful carpets that looked like the finest moss, and flowers and trees with curiously crooked branches, both green and yellow, white and red, and there were also little fountains which sprang up from the most beautiful snail-shells, and fell into bright mussel-shells, and at the same time made a most delightful music, which filled the whole palace.

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

Such of the little crabs as have the left foot or claw the bigger of the two are found in the neritae, but not in the stromboids. are some snail-shells which have inside them creatures resembling those little crayfish that are also found in fresh water.

The History of Animals 2002

I gazed long at the weather-worn block, and, stooping down, perceived a hole near the bottom still full of snail-shells and pebbles, which we were fond of storing there with more perishable things; and, as fresh as reality, it appeared that I beheld my early playmate seated on the withered turf: his dark, square head bent forward, and his little hand scooping out the earth with a piece of slate.

Wuthering Heights 2002

At the bottom of the little bottle was an elongated case, half an inch long, constructed out of what appeared to be silk, and thick with tiny flat snail-shells like buttons.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

Against a pillar, which supports the roof, were hung rows of coloured rags and threads of yarn, with snail-shells and sea-shells strung among them by way of further ornament.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn