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How To Use cowrie In A Sentence

• `When the guest room's fixed up, I'd like to invite Howard and Karin to stay," she said, halting to pick up a cowrie shell. OUT OF THE ASHES
• It was about the size of an orange, and it had eyes, a nose, and a smiling mouth made out of cowrie shells. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 10: MAKING THE SAINT
• They commemorate the currency of cowrie shells and beads, while suggesting the practice of a geomancy divined in the patterning of objects.
• Boulders are infested with black tree corals, mussels, cowrie shells, soft and hard corals and ascidians.
• Economists generally take for granted, if only tacitly, a teleological view of money's historical development, according to which it first takes the "primitive" form of mundane commodities such as cowrie shells and cacao seeds, and then advances through various stages, culminating in the national fiat monies most economies rely upon today. offers a spirited rebuttal to this naively "whiggish" perspective. EconLog
• The cowrie concentrates its secretion along the sides of the mantle, forming a shell like a loosely clenched fist.
• The demonetization of cowries or manillas provoked strong protest from people whose savings were in these forms, to such a degree, indeed, that the British were eventually forced to offer conversion facilities.
• Sometimes the loaner borrowed silver, but paid cowries as interest; other times, he borrowed and repaid in cowries. 58 Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
• Though it is difficult to estimate the degree, the disappearance of cowries and the presence of Han's wuzhuqian, a popular coin, in archaeological sites served as solid evidence. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
• The cowrie is the most widely and longest used currency in history. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions