'Not bad,' he said, peeling the sloshy oysters from their pearly shells with a little silver fork and swallowing them one after another.

Vao'sh reached forward to tap one of the flowers, which clamped shut and withdrew into its telescoping stalk, hiding in the shelter of its pearly shells.

Pearl buckles have been made from pearly shells and usually for ladies' dresses.

With their pearly shells and blue flames, the other dishes are more universally impressive.

He looked down at her hand with its short nails, so practical and yet so 234 pretty, like little pearly shells.

He is forever planning menus, confabbing with waiters, "peeling the sloshy oysters from their pearly shells with a little silver fork and swallowing them one after another."

This time Ilna saw not only the slit-pupiled eye but also the pearly shell and a dozen of the ammonite's waving tentacles.

That book is a brick, and so is the movie, even if it does have Julie Andrews, that pearly shell, playing a missionary's wife.

"My beloved," Japheth whispered into the pearly shell of Oholibamah's ear.

Aperture is deep pink and pearly inner shell.