spalls

• “_spelling in original: more often "spalls" _ numerous expedients were resorted to to prevent”

  The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198

• “A whole section of the wall around the chimney spalls off.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Other Side of Dark

• “Perhaps my favorite excerpt laugh is: ...far from being a volume of tailings, or chips and spalls swept up from the workshop floor, there are some challenging, and at the very least, interesting poems in these pages that belie the usual connotations of an “uncollected” collection.”

  Archive 2009-11-01

• “He cleaned the kitchen windowsill, dust, hair, fly heads, flakes of plaster—stony little spalls.”

  Simon & Schuster: Underworld

• “He had gathered spalls of rock in a heap which delicately now, one by one, he plopped in the water.”

  Simon & Schuster: At Swim, Two Boys

• “The surface of the earth had become distorted black glass, humped upward into spalls and twists which could not properly be called hills and twisted downward into deep cracks and folds which could not properly be called valleys.”

  The Waste Lands

• “Then, with two carefully placed blows at one end of it, he detached a couple of spalls, leaving a sharp, chisellike point.”

  The Plains of Passage

• “On a concrete wall, depending upon the relative size of the charge and thickness of the wall, the crater and spalls meet and form a hole through the wall.”

  Army Field Manual: Explosives and Demolutions Extract by the Death Jester

• “The plaster of this latter was reddened by fire but not fused; sand and sandstone spalls filled the lower”

  The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :

• “Sandstone spalls and chunks of dried mortar from the razed kiva added to the displaced rubbish.”

  The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :

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