Meanings of conches in English

Then they banged the temple bells and blew the conches louder than ever.

He assumes the forms of tortoises and fishes and conches.

The extensive grounds constantly echoed with the sounds of drums and the blare of conches.

As soon as the Hoppoo boat sees what is going on, it begins to blow conches.

Paul felt his ears burning, big as conches.

Have you ever heard a call, Kanaka Oolea, that is without sound yet is louder than the conches of God?

At this instant, four or five conches sounded, in the direction of the mills, and along the western margin of the meadows.

Then conches, and kettle-drums, and tabours, and large drums, and cymbals, and Dindimas, and Jharjharas, were loudly blown and beaten on all sides!

On the back of the grate is a cast of Neptune, standing erect in his car, with Triton blowing conches, &c., and the date 1650.

These conches are supposed to be the producers of pink pearls, but I have opened hundreds of them and failed to find a single pearl.

Evreux, Conches, Breteuil-wemust be about here-yes-andthere'syour crooked railroad.

By the roadside towards Conches, there are magpies everywhere, punctuated by yellow hammers and nightingales.

On the Road Between Conches and Beaumont-le-Roger

Lettres et Documents inédits;' publiés par F. Feuillet de Conches, and of another volume- 'Correspondanceinédite de Marie Antoinette.

Gleister also had an Uncle Max who lived in Key West and was known locally as the Pinochle King of the Conches.

Thence he went back to the Norman border, to be welcomed at Alençon by its count, and to lay seige to Conches.