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I got that paperback as a gift in high school, and over the years, as it browned and brittled and flaked away, I used it for hundreds of papers, dozens of job applications, and a few books.

Tanya Schevitz: Gravitating to an Unplugged Life Tanya Schevitz 2010

Entergy's Indian Point and numerous other aging and brittled reactors also sit on or near MAJOR earthquake fault lines, and a quake of similiar numbers to the one in Japan would more than likely split the cores like an over ripe mellon.

Japanese Earthquake Reactor Accident Worse Than Three Mile Island 2007

Now his face had yellowed and brittled like old ivory, hollowed from this death struggle with loss and the future.

High School Confidential Jeremy Iversen 2006

It had thinned and brittled, and though the ink had faded in the years since he'd first written it, his words were still clear.

Nights in Rodanthe Sparks, Nicholas 2002

At one of the cafes a tune came over the radio that brittled the laughter in his mouth and turned his eyes to December roads.

In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

We brittled him on the knog of an old pine, and rewarded the dog, and drank the Dochfalla; when, having occasion to send the piper to the other side of the wood, and being so near home, I shouldered the roe, and took the way for the ford of Craig-Darach, a strong wide broken stream with a very bad bottom, but the nearest then passable.

The True Story Book Andrew Lang 1878

So a troop of pirates went off and brought back ten lambs which they slaughtered and flayed and brittled.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Eugene McCarthy's quotes and poetry tell us much more about this quiet but deeply principled patriot (who supported National Health Insurance in 1948, who was the only member of Congress willing to publicly debate Joseph McCarthy in 1954, who opposed the Vietnam war in 1968 and inspired RFK to run for president and who went to court against our flawed and corrupt elections system in 1975) than any biography could offer ~ and his last poetic shot from his brittled bow was the truest.

DEATH OF A PATRIOT / GENE McCARTHY 1916 - 2005 2005

[52] l. 199. _brittened_ = brittled, cut up (the deer) [53] l.

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

Several of Louis Daguerre’s portraits of her on the glade lay between sheets of fabric, brittled and yellowed with age.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006