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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.

CHAPTER IV 2010

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.

THE CHINAGO 2010

I sat in my apartment and painted it egg-shell white.

Resplendent brian warfield 2012

And still Frona held the egg-shell with a hand of steel.

CHAPTER 25 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.

MAKE WESTING 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.

CHAPTER 25 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.

Nice Trip? 2009

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

Heavenly Blue Morning Glory 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

The Abbot 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.

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