Shell Heap

Word SHELL HEAP
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The word "shell-heap" in example sentences

I had once a like pleasure in raking over an Indian shell-heap with ❋ Various (N/A)

All from each shell-heap are kept together, and specimens may thus be compared with one another all along the coast-line; or the visitor may go to another room, where the great Rose collection from ❋ Various (N/A)

All the objects found in a particular spot -- taken from one grave or a single shell-heap, or, in wider range, belonging to the same geographical region -- are kept together, no matter how dissimilar the associated articles may be. ❋ Various (N/A)

He remarked that he 'd like to walk over an' see the shell-heap; so she went right to the door and pointed him the way. ❋ Unknown (1910)

No, 't is a dreadful small place to make a world of; it has a different look from any of the other islands, but there 's a sheltered cove on the south side, with mud-flats across one end of it at low water where there 's excellent clams, and the big shell-heap keeps some o 'the wind off a little house her father took the trouble to build when he was a young man. ❋ Unknown (1910)

To these they added a plentiful supply of clams, which they dug with sharp sticks, at low tide, far out across the sand-flats -- toiling for all the world like two of the identical savages who in the long ago, a thousand or five thousand years before the white man came to America, had left shell-heap middens along the north Atlantic coast. ❋ George Allan England (1906)

Apart from the rough evidence furnished by the quality of the relics, calculations have been made of the age of an important shell-heap by assuming that it originally stood at the seaside, and by estimating the number of years required to separate it by the present interval from the coast at a fixed annual rate of silting. ❋ Dairoku Kikuchi (1886)

At Adakh a fancy prompted me to dig into a small knoll near the ancient shell-heap; and here we found, in a precisely similar sarcophagus, the remains of a skeleton, of which also only the cranium retained sufficient consistency to admit of preservation. ❋ Unknown (1884)

At Adakh a fancy prompted me to dig into a small knoll near the ancient shell-heap, and here we found, in a precisely similar sarcophagus, the remains of a skeleton, of which also only the cranium retained sufficient consistency to admit of preservation. ❋ Unknown (1884)

No, 'tis a dreadful small place to make a world of; it has a different look from any of the other islands, but there's a sheltered cove on the south side, with mud-flats across one end of it at low water where there's excellent clams, and the big shell-heap keeps some o 'the wind off a little house her father took the trouble to build when he was a young man. ❋ Sarah Orne Jewett (1879)

He remarked that he'd like to walk over an 'see the shell-heap; so she went right to the door and pointed him the way. ❋ Sarah Orne Jewett (1879)

In less than five minutes after their re-appearance, the paddled craft are brought to shore by the shell-heap, and all -- men, women, children, and dogs -- scramble out of them. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

The floor of the wigwam is overgrown with grass and weeds, while the shell-heap is also covered with greenery, the growth upon it being wild celery and scurvy-grass, two species of plants that give promise of future utility. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

The canoes again appear on the open water at the point of the promontory, making around it, evidently intending to run between the kelp-bed and the shore, and probably to land by the shell-heap. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

"Anyway, there was Indians, —you can see their shell-heap that named the island; and I 've heard myself that 't was one o 'their cannibal places, but I never could believe it. ❋ Unknown (1910)

"Anyway, there was Indians -- you can see their shell-heap that named the island; and I've heard myself that 'twas one o 'their cannibal places, but I never could believe it. ❋ Sarah Orne Jewett (1879)

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