Is this indeed the "murex," as Browning calls it, of the Tyrian purple, which can be found on the Minehead rocks at low-tide by the holiday-makers of our day?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

A whelk, a murex, an olive; shells washed past his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shell Collector : Stories] Reference

The murex dyes generally have more red than blue in them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Patrolman]

Faye stooped for another shell, a rose murex, she thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Season of the Machete]

Such are the phenomena connected with the porphyra or murex.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

It was produced by a combination of the secretions of the murex and buccinum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

I can think of a lot of pink in nature: the inside of a white murex shell is pink.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pink Dress] Reference

The purple murex breeds about springtime, and the ceryx at the close of the winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

It is after the murex has constructed the honeycomb that the bloom is at its worst.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

And it is the same with the haemorrhoid, the purple murex, and all suchlike animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

The coastal cities also produced a famous purple dye made from the murex sea-mollusk.    From Wordnik.com.  [b. Economy, Technology, Society, and Culture] Reference

I wish I could get royal purple not amythyst, not murex purple — real royal purple seed beads.    From Wordnik.com.  [BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Bead Creatures] Reference

It does not adhere to its shell like the purple murex and the ceryx, but can easily slip out of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

Purpurissimum was made from creta argentaria, a fine chalk or clay, steeped in a purple dye, obtained from the murex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

'I hope, for their sakes, he doesn't take them to that conniving murex-seller who cheated us last year,' said Cleonyma.    From Wordnik.com.  [See Delphi and Die]

Recently we found several clusters of murex shells, the shells of a kind of snail that was commonly used for purple dye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelusium: Gateway to Egypt] Reference

Among marine animals, too, the murex and many other similar animals have an acute perception of their food by its odour.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Sense and the Sensible] Reference

Euphrasia, resplendent in glowing stripes of scarlet and purple, a triumph of rich murex dyes, lolled in a long cane chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two For The Lions]

A marlinspike, a crowned nassa, a broken murex, a lined bullia, small voyagers navigating the current-packed ridges of sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shell Collector : Stories] Reference

All these statements may be verified in the case of the purple murex and the ceryx by observation within the whorl of the shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

The murex lives for about six years; and the yearly increase is indicated by a distinct interval in the spiral convolution of the shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

It was of a wool as dense as velvet and soft as silk, dyed with Tyrian murex to a soft glowing crimson just tinged with purple, pure as the red of a dark rose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Games]

There are many species of the purple murex; and some are large, as those found off Sigeum and Lectum; others are small, as those found in the Euripus, and on the coast of Caria.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

But few there be who dive, that fish the murex up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers] Reference

The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Traits (1856)] Reference

Without doubt the murex, which gives the purple dye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rashi]

Peloponnesus, where they gather the purple-yielding murex and kidnap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference

For black murex, sizes fell into two categories: juveniles and reproductively mature adults.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Ægean, and of the northern shores of Africa, while the sea furnished it with the purple dye of the murex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patriarchal Palestine] Reference

Some suppose that the meaning here is, that Triton had his shoulders tinted with the purple color of the murex.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference

’ I hazard that the most important thing in our blood is that purple drop of the imperial murex we derive from Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. On the Lineage of English Literature (II)] Reference

These being permanent, the shell is strongly marked by the rough shelly expansions along the lines of growth, as in the murex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference

The fishermen became in time sailors and merchant-princes, and the fish for which they sought was the murex with its precious purple dye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patriarchal Palestine] Reference

4, 41 = 2.53, P = 0.05; black murex: Pillai's Trace F.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

We have no murex.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

Examples are the murex and the ceryx.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Gait of Animals] Reference

Both the murex and the ceryx are long lived.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

Spondylus calcifer) and black murex snail (Hexaplex nigritus.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference