Read full poem →contrast between beauty and harshness.
15. Ammonites, fossil shells of cuttle-fishes, once thought to be petri-
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Dictionary Entry
A hard external covering of an animal.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. shellsshells oystershells seashells marineshells artillery
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Poetry examples for “shells”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →A Baby's feet, like sea-shells pink,
Might tempt, should heaven see meet,
Read full poem →Those eyelids folded like a white-rose leaf,
Deep double shells wherethrough the eye-flower peers,
Let them weep once more only, sweet and brief,
Read full poem →Cut like a cameo in lazuli,
Then falls, betrayed by shifting shells, and lands
Prone in the jeering water, and his hands
Read full poem →Their hearts are blown away on the hot breeze.
Only the shells and stones can wait to be
Washed bright. For living things, who suffer pain,
Read full poem →on the window-sill, with the basket in her lap. And tap! She cracks a nut.
And tap! Another. Tap! Tap! Tap! The shells ricochet upon the roof,
and get into the gutters, and bounce over the edge and disappear.
Read full poem →Their shells did slow crustacea build,
Their gilded skins did snakes renew,
Read full poem →A piece of glass abraded by the beach
And six or seven shells,
A bottle with bluebells
Read full poem →A piece of glass abraded by the beach
And six or seven shells,
A bottle with bluebells
Read full poem →your jolly tete when the
jolly shells begin dropping jolly fast you
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