seashell

The first glimpse of her new home was a delight to eye and spirit--it looked so like a big, creamy seashell stranded on the harbor shore.

"'Although this beast approached us, as I have before said, with the greatest rapidity, it must have been moved altogether by necromancy- for it had neither fins like a fish nor web-feet like a duck, nor wings like the seashell which is blown along in the manner of a vessel; nor yet did it writhe itself forward as do the eels.

The canoe was about seven feet in length; of a rich, dark coloured wood, handsomely carved and adorned in many places with variegated bindings of stained sinnate, into which were ingeniously wrought a number of sparkling seashells, and a belt of the same shells ran all round it.

Madeira, again, is inhabited by a wonderful number of peculiar land-shells, whereas not one species of sea-shell is confined to its shores: now, though we do not know how seashells are dispersed, yet we can see that their eggs or larvae, perhaps attached to seaweed or floating timber, or to the feet of wading-birds, might be transported far more easily than land-shells, across three or four hundred miles of open sea.

During the first part of the day we crossed a mountainous rocky desert, and afterwards a long deep sandy plain, strewed with broken seashells. There was very little water, and that little saline: the whole country, from the coast to the Cordillera, is an uninhabited desert.

Perhaps it's how these seashell accessories got an upgrade from your childhood DIY projects.

Donos, in an interview with ABS-CBN's TV Patrol Southern Mindanao, said that seashell supplies in the city are not from any of the red tide hit areas.

At the end of the first hour, the questions we need answering are: Why was the nice, elderly seashell collector brutally murdered in the first five minutes?

But the hotelier moved them to a room at nearby Casa Seashell which Jon said smelled musty and was freezing.

Thankfully there were no such rows at the inaugural Mason Family Foundation ladies lunch in aid of the Seashell Trust.

The popular pilgrimage route that passes across Slovakia and ends in Santiago de Compostela in Spain, will lead across one more Slovak city.Several tiles in Svrtoplukovo Square in the very heart of Nitra, as well as at Nitra Castle, will be decorated with a symbol of St James' legacy, a seashell.

They say that if you hold a seashell to your ear, you will hear the sea.