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    conch


    1. Somehow, I knew it was a conch shell, even though I’d never heard one before


    2. When the plates were cleared away, the conch horn sounded and we all stood at our tables


    3. Chiron cantered out from the woods and blew the conch horn


    4. The Ruler of the Dagonites reached for his regal conch and pressed it to his blue lips


    5. The calls of conch shell trumpeteers rang out louder than ever, delivered by the teeming masses of mermen soldiers


    6. conch as the fire died out and the sunrays began


    7. The entire room was done in motifs of sea shells, the bed was shaped like a conch shell and the chairs like clams


    8. “Loka, the gods have not given you an easy or popular task, the gods are testing your right to lead your people, in these troubled times only a true warrior can lead the Tolteca, the conch is trivial, the act of getting it is what counts, have you prepared yourself with prayer and meditation


    9. Surely the fury of the sea will have thrown a conch up onto the beach, I decided to try the beach to the south, and after about a thousand paces, I began to find strange wreckage littering the sand, hand worked timbers, cloth, rope and materials I had never seen before


    10. Suddenly I saw the exact shell that I needed, in fact much bigger than I needed this was indeed a trophy to be proud of, after looking all around I dashed from the cover of the tree line and scooped up the conch and was on my way back to the safety of the trees when I spotted a piece of dark flat timber with something tied to it

    11. Our procession finally arrived at the square, picking up my conch shell, I walked up the steps of the central platform and faced the temple steps, the murmur of the crowd slowly subsided, Yaotl the high priest hadn’t appeared so I stood as tall and immobile as I could, with an air of patience that I did not feel, after a longer wait than decency warranted, Yaotl would have seen our approach many miles away from the vantage of the pyramid temple’s lofty height, the crowd started to murmur and a few voices where loud and beginning to show signs of impatience, I stood quite still trying to assume the same air of nobility and nonchalance that Coatl displayed when faced with a situation, suddenly the villagers fell silent and from a doorway on the second level, the high priest, Yaotl, appeared dressed in his full regalia including the mirror breastplate and broad black stripe across his face, it was said that he could see into the soul of anyone foolish enough to look into the mirror on his chest


    12. “Loka, it has been suggested that you have been helped in your search for the conch, you know this is forbidden, and a blasphemy against the gods, what have you to say in your defence


    13. Father blew the conch and he chanted the holy Sanskrit hymns


    14. You will hear various kinds of sounds such as flute, violin, kettledrum, thunder-storm, conch, bells, the humming of a bee, etc


    15. “Awake, ye great soul!”—addressing thus, the Lord Vishnu blew His conch Panchajanya, filling the quarters with the echo of its sound


    16. For at least sixty seconds before he spoke, the crowds kept chanting his name and blowing conch shells (the rally had been branded Vijay Shanknad Rally)


    17. The rhythms of drums, the blare of horns and conch shells, and firing of musket


    18. eldest of the Kaurav (Bheeshm) blew his conch to blare forth a lion-


    19. Bheeshm, the eldest of the Kaurav, blows his conch to produce a lion-like


    20. After Bheeshm’s blowing of his conch, numerous other conches,

    21. everything about him is celestial, the chariot, the conch and, therefore,


    22. human heart, blows the conch Panchjanya


    23. Sentiment is fathomless and mighty, and this sentiment is Bheem’s great conch that is now blown


    24. That is why Bheem blows the conch


    25. the conch which bears the name of Manipushpak


    26. ing respectively for an affirmation of the true goal (conch), commence-


    27. The cave, a cavern hollowed in the rock of a hill not a minute’s flight from the stream, emanated sobs and roars like a giant conch shell possessed


    28. She stopped at the waterfront to watch the fishing boats unload their catch of giant turtles, enormous lobsters, tropical fish and a brilliantly colored variety of conch shells, which would be polished and sold to the tourists


    29. Seizing the chance Ishtar sounded her conch and a circle of Yoginis appeared around that human woman


    30. the quiet of the night was broken by the shrill call of a loud conch shell

    31. I kept my ear to the conch shell of creation


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    "conch" definitions

    any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip