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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Examples of this universal balancing act keep proliferating, stretching out my meditation as I shell periwinkles.
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Farther down the cove hundreds of periwinkles move slowly over the black rocks, feeding on kelp.
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In the glow of the porch light, he saw her eyes turn that mesmerizing shade of periwinkle .
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Not all fossils are shells of invertebrates like clams, oysters, cowries, and periwinkles.
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The periwinkle scours it, spits the calcified bits away.
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We slice green apples from my tree, scrub mussels and crabs, extract periwinkles from their shells.