frangibility

I love everything about it: its translucency, its frangibility, its ragged edges, its bruises and discolorations.

Trying to Keep Parallel Narratives on the Rails Sam Sacks 2011

There are two advantages to frangibility in varmint bullets.

Gun Geezer Makes Muscatel* Mist 2007

Technical criteria of interest for this application include density, frangibility, and barrel wear.

Alternatives for significant uses of lead in Massachusetts 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.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

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.

The Judge 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.

Marion's Faith. Charles King 1888

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.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

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.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse 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.

A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876

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.

A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874