This era produced hulking concrete edifices built in the form of conch shells, rocket ships, sail boats, origami figures, and circus tents. |
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As the last went down a conch blew a deep note and two priests stepped forward and closed the doors of the shrine. |
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Mizhavu and Edakka and conch provide the background music to Koodiyattam and necessary sound modulations in scenes. |
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I mixed all these together with the conch, a tablespoon of fresh lime juice, a pinch of salt, and a few shakes of Tabasco. |
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Restaurants serving conch and goat meat and record shops blaring Haitian meringue music sprang up on 54th Street and Northeast Second Avenue. |
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It appears to be cut from a large bivalve and does not have the twisted shape of a whelk or conch columella. |
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The conch we saw is safe from the balloonfish because its shell is too thick for the balloonfish to break. |
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With mighty sounds of drums, horns and conch, Swamiji was invited to take the seat of the Holy Guruji. |
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Holiday meals tend to center on local fish or conch, rice and peas, baked goods, and fresh fruit. |
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However, the more complexly the marginal fluting, the better is the anchorage of the soft tissue to the buoyant conch. |
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She is brought coral and pearls in a conch by a young negress whose dark skin distracts attention from her own swarthy Breton complexion. |
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Revellers began arriving hours before the games with drums, conch horns and trumpets in hand to make this the best party in town. |
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I wonder if they can do anything to control the poachers though, as the conch is a marine dweller. |
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Shiva was depicted as a Himalayan ascetic, Vishnu as a blue youth holding in his four hands a discus, mace, conch, and lotus. |
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In addition, the apertural region of the conch is depicted as flaring outward, but any such flaring on the specimen itself is subtle at best. |
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The title song begins with a conch blaring and the bass drum launching into its rhythm. |
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The atmosphere reverberated with the sound of conch shells and temple drums. |
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They had oysters, sea urchins, conch shells, tulip shells, starfish, and crabs either attached or living on them. |
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Because of the lack of the external conch the octopods swam swiftly, and successfully coped with the upper Cretaceous marine predators. |
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He indicated that before forming a new phragmocone chamber, the cochleate cephalopod detaches the muscles from the conch and moves forward. |
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The lenticular, keeled conch form and evolute, coarsely plicate juvenile whorls of Eoprodromites were anticipated by the Pseudarietitinae. |
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Inner conch piercing looks very similar to lobe piercing, but it is placed on the inner conch and surrounds the lower outer helix. |
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We take his word that we are eating shark, conch, shrimp, scallops and mussels and are relieved we can't afford more. |
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These are strong arguments for an adaptive origin of coiling in the cephalopod conch. |
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The operculum illustrated by Reed does not match in outline the conch, and is here considered to be a different taxon. |
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The conch is thickly discoidal, with broadly convex sides and rounded venter with rounded ventral shoulders. |
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The two national dishes are conch, an easily collected sea snail, rice, and peas. |
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The development of a coiled conch by only stochastic variation, or as a result of structural constraints alone, is considered highly improbable. |
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This example of classic tetra conch design with all its miniature size, strikes the viewers with its grandeur and integrity. |
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The main walls of the interior are mostly built of hewn stone, the apse stones are better and the conch stones are very well-hewn. |
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The higher the value, the nearer the siphuncle is toward the concave side of the conch. |
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The elf clutched the small conch shell in one hand and whispered a thank you to her friend. |
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Lobster, conch and other marine creatures make up the largest component of exports. |
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Wrapping around them like spirals on a conch shell, everyone who had Power left formed themselves into a chain, one hand being placed on another's shoulder. |
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The conch shell in Botticelli's picture, always traditionally associated with Venus, comes from such a creature, one which respires by means of a copper-process. |
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Slean was backed by a crack six piece band, including a string section and Sarah McElcheran on trumpet, flugelhorn and what appeared to be a conch shell. |
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We found the other local favourite, curried conch, less to our liking. |
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A globular point means safety, a conch shape represents fame, a bright yellow flame indicated no obstacles, a lotus and jewel like flame denotes wealth. |
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The fishermen leave when threatened but are back in the same location within minutes, openly defying the police officer by blowing a conch shell as he speaks. |
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For example, the queen conch, a beautiful rose-pink shellfish from the Caribbean, was listed in 2003, due to its rapid decline. |
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But when it comes to eating a meal, all you know for sure is that it will be colorful, high-flavored, and conch in character. |
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Let the bells ring, the conch shells, drums and gongs sound 350 times for climate justice! |
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The road is lined with stalls selling food, including stews made from the flesh of the conch after which the village is named. |
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Bags of live conch are being kept fresh, just under the water, but a boy says that they have been over-harvested here to the point of extinction. |
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By the closing stages, it was back to bring-your-own food, blowing conch shells and a sense of fun. |
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In addition, above and on both sides of the conch, the portal is decorated with interlacing geometric bands of grey and white marble. |
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Fountain made of stone from Saint-Maximin, representing a conch blowing putto triton sitting on a stone. |
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These problems have been well researched for other species, such as abalone, queen conch, and sea urchins. |
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The chakra is held in his upper right hand and the conch in his raised left hand. |
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Members of Environment Canada's Enforcement Branch display confiscated packages of queen conch shell meat. |
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Architects and engineers are looking at the almost indestructible conch shell. |
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To her right is an attendant bearing a fly-whisk in her right hand and a conch shell in her left hand. |
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The sound of the conch shell is a summons for people to gather in a particular place. |
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All were available in plain or patinated brass or copper, and they included a variety of shells, such as Philippine, chiton, limpet, melon, triton, sea conch, and nautilus. |
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Her other hand points at a painting within the painting of a mermaid sounding a conch shell, indicating her affinity with the legless, mythological creature. |
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The surface of the conch seems to possess a layer of intensively weathered shell, and no feature that could be reasonably interpreted as growth lines is present. |
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At American Fine Arts, the Rapid logo, a five-color spiral based on a conch shell, graced a Plexiglas and vinyl sculpture of a gas pump emitting a fluorescent glow. |
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Earlier this month, additional protection was given under this convention to the queen conch mollusk, a popular food item famous for its enormous pink shell. |
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The sound of the conch and things like that were very moving. |
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I'm jolted awake the next morning by the trumpeting of a conch shell. |
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A coiled conch develops a closed umbilicus only when certain very limited conditions are fulfilled, thus permitting only very limited degrees of freedom. |
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You can also choose the house specialty Rainbow soup, conch chowder, fresh lamb soup cooked New England style, or a variety of scrumptious salads. |
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Two common dishes, whilst not traditionally 'local', are conch fritters and conch salad. |
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This award, which honours the superior performance of law enforcement officers in the United States and Canada, comes after both countries worked together to break up an international queen conch smuggling ring. |
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Queen conch is a large mollusc that is native to the waters that surround 36 Caribbean countries and is widely considered to be a seafood delicacy. |
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The primary natural resources are spiny lobster, conch, and other shellfish. |
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Bombies were everywhere, as plentiful as seashells at the beach and sold the same way conch shells are in Florida. |
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One, with its interior spaces arranged in concentric circles and connected by a spiralling staircase, brings to mind a giant exploded conch shell. But shells are all that remain. |
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Is the conch shell with a rudder silently signaling a return to Africa? |
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Priests at the Yakuo-in temple, which is situated on the mountain, create a mystical soundscape as they blow conch shells and perform prayers for Geikosai – the festival to welcome the light. |
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If you ever tire of the coast, stroll from one cheerfully painted diner to another, in search of the best ackee-and-saltfish, rice-and-peas or conch soup, amid the clack of dominoes. |
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The sea snails save their jumping for conch emergencies, such as when they detect dissolved body odor from the deadly cone snail Conus marmoreus. |
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The Queen conch, Strombus gigas, is a gastropod widely distributed in the Caribbean. |
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On top of the shield is a conch shell, which represents the varied marine life of the island chain. |
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These two confiscations, which took place between November and December 2006, accounted for over 27 metric tonnes of falsely declared queen conch meat. |
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Both the commercial and recreational conch fisheries in Florida are closed due to overfishing, and stocks have been slow to recover, partly due to pollution and habitat loss. |
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Operation Shell Game was an 18-month long investigation that disbanded a massive international smuggling ring that saw more than 100,000 kilograms of queen conch meat shipped from the Caribbean to Canada. |
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By day, they snorkeled for conch and paddled in the pool in inner tubes. |
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It was alleged that the queen conch was mislabelled and falsely documented as non-endangered frozen whelk meat so as to escape the scrutiny of U. S. and Canadian border and wildlife officials. |
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Divers have ventured into increasingly deep waters to collect queen conch, a variety prized for its meat and lustrous shells. |
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The conch shell, the most frequent of marine shells used to produce sound, may have begun its service to music as a voice distorter, later to become an effective trumpet. |
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Blue crab, conch, Florida stone crab, red drum, dorado, and marlins tend to be local favorite ingredients. |
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Turks and Caicos cuisine is based primarily around seafood, especially conch. |
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Turks and Caicos Islands has one of the longest coral reefs in the world and the world's only conch farm. |
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At the end of July 2008, EC's wildlife enforcement officers gave a presentation to law enforcement officials in Colombia to improve their ability to monitor, detect and combat the smuggling of queen conch meat. |
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Freshwater eel was an extra generous cut of smoked and sweet-sauced wriggler, while the conch was simply fresh and sweet, somehow both tender and crunchy at once. |
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Such period instruments as Mexican baroque guitar and sackbut are used alongside the conch shell and percussion instruments that were used by the Aztecs. |
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Phototaxis and vertical migration of the queen conch veliger larvae. |
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