When the opera began it was a whisper far away, like the sea in an ancient shell.

Could soldiers ever become common men, or were they doomed to be naught more than ancient, useless shells of the warriors they once were?

So that although to Jim it seemed only the ancient, ruined shell of a building, yet, between one heartbeat and the next, it seemed to change.

The interior chapel contains an ancient conch shell (dungkhar) wrapped in a prayer scarf (kathak) displayed in a glass case.

Its name is thought to come from the large amounts of "crabs," ancient fossilized shells, trilobites, etc., found along the island's limestone shoreline.

The formal or Lady's Garden occupy a comparable space to the residence, consisting of symmetrical patterns interspersed with sculptures of ancient shells and royal cavalry.

Ages ago the ancient empty shell must have drifted back toward the distant sun, drifted into the thin Trojan-point dust and coasted to a stop.

But it was all new, superimposed on the ancient shell by a stage dresser with an unlimited budget.

The fossils here are not dinosaurs, but ancient shells, coral, and oysters from the Miocene epoch when the area was underwater.

Sammy Tigertail sprinted after him, kicking up a dust of ancient shells and warrior bones.