Examples from literature

• But, there is less and less abalone and shellfish. 
• Instead, they started to dive for just abalone and other shellfish. 
• Each pair was given a walking-stick—one of white shell to one, staffs of turquoise, abalone, and jet respectively to the others. 
• In that tremulous moment before the break of day, shore and stream and sky melted and ran together in the liquid pattern of an abalone shell. 
• It was a big shell shaped like an abalone. 
• On these we stroll and gather abalone shells and empty sea eggs and other relics up-thrown by winter storms. 
• Our dragnet was filled with Midas abalone, harp shells, obelisk snails, and especially the finest hammer shells I had seen to that day. 
• Some of the boys are searching in the sea up to their waists—hard work when one considers how tough the abalone is, and how tasteless. 
• The abalones are as large as steaks, and a great deal tougher. 
• There were turquoise spikes in the southern, abalone in the western, and jet in the northern walls. 
• They dry the meat of the abalone also, and use the beautiful shells, which you have no doubt seen, for carving into curios, or making into jewellery. 
• When that was done all entered the house, where on the walls hung many beautiful strings of turquoise, abalone, white-shell, and jet beads, and plates of armor.