0 a small sea creature that can be eaten. It lives inside a shell that is the shape of an ear and is white and shiny inside.
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.
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.
