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Definition of Conchs
1. conch [n] - See also: conch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conchs
Literary usage of Conchs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of Sabra: An Ecological Cruise Through the Caribbean, with Extras by Michael L. Frankel (1990)
"... The conchs TTTTTT Key West to Palm Beach On our return from Cuba we experienced
the first truly frightening moment of the trip. ..."
2. The Colony of British Honduras: Its Resources and Prospects, with Particular by Sir Daniel Morris (1883)
"conchs. Snakes. Flies. Leaf-cutting ants. FOE the stay-at-home Briton, no less
than for the tropical traveller, it may be pardonable to mention that the ..."
3. The Land of the Pink Pearl; Or, Recollections of Life in the Bahamas by Louis Diston Powles (1888)
"... Government bank— Bankruptcy imminent—" conchs "—Constitution—Corruption at
elections—Circuit Justices' Act—Jobbery of Lower House—What might have been. ..."
4. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1851)
"The line carries 8 standards, 552 pennons, and 144 conchs. The arms of the troops
are, it is presumed, the spear, the bow, and small-sword elsewhere ..."
5. Cruising and Blockading by William Henry Winslow (1885)
"The tired officers sought their bunks, but occasionally they could hear the words,
sung to a popular air, " I danced with the Queen of the conchs, conchs, ..."
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