cowry

How To Use cowry In A Sentence

• ‘That's a mouse cowry,’ the doctor said. ‘A lovely find.’
• I'd pop over the road to Mother India cafe and smell the food, which I still believe to be a free activity.www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museumsThere's a beach called New Polzeath in Cornwall where you can wade out, go under a peak and get to a little secret beach where you can pick cowry shells. The insider's guide to free arts
• The idea that the cowry was the giver of life and the parent of men was also transferred to crude stone imitations of the shell. The Evolution of the Dragon
• As it is manifestly impossible to derive the word "cowry" from the Greek word for "pig," the only explanation that will stand examination is that the two meanings must have been acquired from the identification of both the cowry and the pig with the Great The Evolution of the Dragon
• The men wear a horned headdress with a tall tuft of feathers and a fringe of cowry shells dangling over their faces.
• In 1411, Sien, the native chieftain of Xichidian, asked to use silver to pay taxes of 79,800 suo of cowries that had to be purchased from Lin'an. 61 Since cowries circulated in large numbers, a kind of cowry bank (bahang) emerged. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
• The Dakpogan forge is a land where raffia fibers become bicycle chains and cowry shells become sparkplugs - semantic equivalencies with a cutting edge.
• Instead of the usual facepiece made of mesh and covered with cowry shells, this one is made from a radiator grid and covered with sparkplugs.
• Hence, the devaluation of the cowry was a logical result. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
• Positing, as above, too males pooles, the one the pictor of the other and the omber the Skotia of the one, and looking want-ingly around our undistributed middle between males we feel we must waistfully woent a female to focus and on this stage there pleasantly appears the cowrymaid M. whom we shall often meet below who introduces herself upon us at some precise hour which we shall again agree to call absolute zero or the babbling pumpt of platinism. Finnegans Wake