You ought to get out of your little private shell and take a look at the world.

As for the little shell of a house: is it the real thing or a child's toy?

At the corner of each eye she wore a little blue shell.

She was not ready to leave her little shell.

Marty had found fossils in the park by the school, maybe not a dinosaur, but a little shell.

Do you remember seeing those little pink shells down in the cove?

So they all hunted for the little pink shells in the cove, and found dozens of them.

His voice went on, piercing the little shell of my consciousness where I had so softened it.

The Companions spread out, and the little armored shell at the heart of their circle opened up.

I used little shells to represent the people in the town, as usual.