"... seashells were before gems, and they were money before s."

"I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it."

"She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore; The shells she sells are sea-shells I'm sure."

"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if …"

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-sh…"

"But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun’s palace-porch, where wh…"

"Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the w…"

"I send thee a shell from the ocean-beach; But listen thou well, for my shell hath speech. Hold to thine ear And plain…"

"I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smoot…"

"Poor shell! that Wordsworth so pounded and flattened in his marsh it no longer had the hoarseness of a sea, but of a …"