"Well, young Denville," said Fisherman Dick, as he sat on the bench outside his whitewashed cottage with the whelk-shell path, bordered with marigold beds, one of which flowers he picked from time to time to give the child.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
It had evidently lived in the sea of the Red Crag, where it had been exposed to rough usage, and sustained injuries like those which the reversed whelk, Trophon antiquum, so characteristic of the same formation, often exhibits.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell
The dorsal integument of a Doris and the cloak of a whelk are both called 'mantle,' without any evidence to show that they are really homologous.
"Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work"
P. Chalmers Mitchell