abalone-shells

Updated: May 29, 2025

But Timoteo had with him a long iron spike with which he intended to urge the abalone-shells from the rocks. The abalone has a large, very strong, white "foot" inside its long shell, and there is a row of holes in the shell itself.

Mary E. (Mary Ellen) Bamford - Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East

He clambered far out over the wet rocks for hours, finding abalones now and then, and waging war on these thick, rough ovals that clung so tightly to the rock, the beautiful colors of the abalone-shells entirely concealed. Timoteo saw nothing more of Herbert, during these hours of work. Timoteo succeeded in getting three abalones, the last an especially large shell.

Mary E. (Mary Ellen) Bamford - Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East

According to Laura Bride Powers, "great festoons of abalone-shells hung around its arms, with strings of fish and meat; feathers projected from the top, and bundles of arrows and sticks lay at its base.

David Starr Jordan - The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches