I love everything about it: its translucency, its frangibility, its ragged edges, its bruises and discolorations. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)
There are two advantages to frangibility in varmint bullets. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Technical criteria of interest for this application include density, frangibility, and barrel wear. ❋ Unknown (2008)
To understand the magnificence of the wonderful structure, the reader must have in mind the laws affecting light in transmission through water -- the frangibility of the rays, the frequent alternations in dispersion, reflection, interference and accidental and complementary color. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was cool without being chill, and took the warmth of one's hand flatteringly soon, as if it liked to do so, yet kept its freshness; it was smooth without being glossy, mat as a pearl, and as delightful to roll in the hand; and of an exquisite, alarming frangibility that gave it, in its small way, that flavour which belongs to pleasures that are dogged by the danger of a violent end. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
Four years at one school give opportunities which are illimitable, but the present writer knew neither of them in the bread-and-butter period, and was properly reproved by the one and snubbed by the other when, in the supposed superiority of his years and co-extensive views on the frangibility of feminine friendship, he had sought to raise the veil of the past and peer into the archives of those school-days. ❋ Charles King (1888)
Dogs and young horses, with those which have become sufficiently aged for their bones to have acquired an enhanced degree of frangibility, are more liable than those which have not exceeded the time of their prime. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)
The history of rachitis, of melanosis, and of osteoporosis, as related to an abnormal frangibility of the bones, is a part of our common medical knowledge. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)
Whatever the cause, his brain had a rift of ruin in it, from the start, and though his delicate touch often stole a new grace from classic antiquity, it was the frangibility, the quick decay, the fall of all lovely and noble things, that excited and engaged him. ❋ Lathrop, George P (1876)
Michael Haykin says that "reading expressions of love from the past can be a helpful way of responding to the frangibility of Christian marriage in our day." ❋ Unknown (2009)
The preordained frangibility of the hymen: the presupposed intangibility of the thing in itself: the incongruity and disproportion between the selfprolonging tension of the thing proposed to be done and the selfabbreviating relaxation of the thing done; the fallaciously inferred debility of the female: the muscularity of the male: the variations of ethical codes: the natural grammatical transition by inversion involving no alteration of sense of an aorist preterite proposition (parsed as masculine subject, monosyllabic onomatopoeic transitive verb with direct feminine object) from the active voice into its correlative aorist preterite proposition (parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb and quasimonosyllabic onomatopoeic past participle with complementary masculine agent) in the passive voice: the continued product of seminators by generation: the continual production of semen by distillation: the futility of triumph or protest or vindication: the inanity of extolled virtue: the lethargy of nescient matter: the apathy of the stars. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I was intrigued by the ballistic tip when it first came out for a couple of reasons; one, it was one of the most ballistically efficient bullets I'd ever seen, and two, reports of its frangibility struck me as just what the doctor ordered for the relatively small whitetails in our area (the biggest-bodied buck you'd ever see where I lived weighed about 110 pounds. ❋ Unknown (2008)
