Egg Shell

While Barry gulped twenty-five cent tea from a large and heavy mug, Mercedes sipped three-dollar tea from a tiny cup of Belleek, rose-tinted, fragile as all egg-shell. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And still Frona held the egg-shell with a hand of steel. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I sat in my apartment and painted it egg-shell white. ❋ Brian Warfield (2012)

He had not exactly crushed the man's head like an egg-shell, but the blow had been sufficient to addle what was inside, and, after being sick for a week, the man had died. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The heavy block hurtled through the air, smashing Dorety's head like an egg-shell and hurtling on and back and forth as the staysail whipped and slatted in the wind. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Light as an egg-shell, and as fragile, her three-eighths-inch skin offered no protection from a driving chunk of ice as small as a man's head. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is also a glaring example of the BBC's ongoing policy of egg-shell treading and whitewashing when it comes to Islam, past and present. ❋ Unknown (2009)

 She looked like she could benefit from a headstand herself right now, her skin was egg-shell pale and chalky. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I believe, in my soul, you would run with a piece of the egg-shell on your head like the curlews, which (I would we were after them again) we used to call whaups in the ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's because so many people's feelings of self-worth are egg-shell thin, causing a need to dominate others, or causing them to accept violence as a part of life, or to believe they deserve it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Gould regarded it as a pelican and data from egg-shell microstructure and ear morphology was used by later authors to support this view. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Love this fried-egg toy -- a metal egg-shell that opens up to reveal a felt fried egg. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“Finján” the egg-shell cups from which the Easterns still drink coffee. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Given the times in which we live, the egg-shell walking is probably unavoidable. ❋ Steve Hulett (2007)

The difference indeed between these and the works of genius, is not less than between an egg and an egg-shell; yet at a distance they both look alike ❋ Unknown (2005)

I like the idea of growing plant in the egg-shell. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“The spirit of radicalism abroad in this country,” said Sir Brian Newcome, crushing his egg-shell desperately, ❋ Unknown (2006)

The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

She [needs] to [get rid of] that egg shell and get a real new [car]. ❋ Adeola (2006)

Man 1: [That blue] paint is [aqua] not royal. Man 2: yo holmes, you be [trippin on egg shells]. ❋ JimBob MacGregor (2003)

[Yessss] Becky get in my [egg shell selfie], [you go girl]. ❋ Egg Shell (2019)