alabaster
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Seeing calabashes filled with the stuff, he began buying it up for a few dollars a kilo and shipping it to the capital, Bissau.
From Time • Oct. 15, 2012
Stepping lively to avoid the angry swarms of worker ants, they seized the inch-long queens as they emerged, and popped them into hollowed calabashes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Usually the lecturers were welcomed with calabashes of palm wine, especially when word got around that they could forecast wedding dates for the girls.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first girl carried the calabashes almost all the way back, but just before the village she had to stop and allow the second girl to carry them in.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
Every day the first girl would dip her calabashes into the pool and draw out the cool river water.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
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