The (uncooked, freshly killed) conch is then scored and chopped. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Chanuconch] Reference
As you can see, a conch is a gastropod — in other words, a huge freakin’ snail. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Chanuconch] Reference
This dinner horn was made of a great shell called a conch shell. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of American Life and Adventure] Reference
Bahamian delicacies such as conch salad, cracked conch and fried fish. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
He also serves conch, which is over-exploited all over the Caribbean, and is on the Monterey Bay’s “avoid” list. From Wordnik.com. [Terms of Endangerment] Reference
The coral groves -- the shores of conch and pearl. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831] Reference
First came the conch-blowers, appointed by Ampho, Royal. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
Mock-oranges and conch-shells decorated the mantelpiece. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
Next morning we are awaked by a blast from a conch-shell. From Wordnik.com. [The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa] Reference
And that chastiser of foes also repeatedly blew his conch. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
This was greeted with cheers and blasts on the conch-shells. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
At left, the thin-sliced conch with roasted-chili vinaigrette. From Wordnik.com. [Szechuan in Midtown] Reference
(Soundbite of a conch) REEVES: This is a good place to do business. From Wordnik.com. [The Sacred Island That's Shrinking Away] Reference
Exports - commodities: lobster, dried and fresh conch, conch shells. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Exports -- commodities: lobster, dried and fresh conch, conch shells. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
In the shallow water near the shore we find great pink conch shells. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journey to Puerto Rico : for Intermediate and Upper Grades For Intermediate and Upper Grades] Reference
Turks and Caicos Islands lobster, dried and fresh conch, conch shells. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Turks and Caicos Islands: lobster, dried and fresh conch, conch shells. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
It was furnished with a cookstove, a table, a small side-board, an old conch and. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Minds Her Business] Reference
The conch shell lured the third crew ashore, and once more the party found itself intact. From Wordnik.com. [Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie] Reference
He is the only conch player in the American Federation of Musicians in New York, actually. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Ragogna: Paradise & Little Vigils: Conversations with Judy Collins and That Guy Mark Erelli] Reference
But it was not permitted them to become inhabitants of one lodge, the occupants of one conch. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
A man sits on a mat surrounded by exotic shells, advertising his wares while blowing on a conch. From Wordnik.com. [The Sacred Island That's Shrinking Away] Reference
People heard the blare of unseen conch shells on all sides, then the music of flutes and cymbals. From Wordnik.com. [The Day Of The Living Buddhas] Reference
The earth behind the skull being removed, three enormous conch shells presented their open mouths. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
A conch-shell twenty inches long and ten in diameter will do for a sample -- not a small gasteropod!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
An ocean in her ears, like listening to a conch shell attached to headphones with the volume on high. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with No Skin] Reference
They scattered paper money like tickertape, lit firecrackers, blew conch shells and howled out to the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Desperate Devotion] Reference
If any of them knew I'd once harbored a nose ring, they would have choked on their conch-fritter bors d'oeuvres. From Wordnik.com. [Family Resemblances] Reference
He is usually represented as preceding his father and acting as his trumpeter, using a conch-shell for this purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Janstins into the sea by hitting him with a kind of hammer with a wooden handle, and at one end a black conch shell. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] Reference
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