egg-shells

There were four newly hatched chicks, a day old -- little specks of pulsating life no more than a mouthful; and he ate them ravenously, thrusting them alive into his mouth and crunching them like egg-shells between his teeth.

LOVE OF LIFE 2010

There were four newly hatched chicks, a day old - little specks of pulsating life no more than a mouthful; and he ate them ravenously, thrusting them alive into his mouth and crunching them like egg-shells between his teeth.

LOVE OF LIFE 2010

But the fresh water, and the little canoes, egg-shells, fairy bubbles; a big breath, a sigh, a heart-pulse too much, and pouf! over you go; not so, that I do not know.

CHAPTER 14 2010

A back-handed, loose blow of his fist could have smashed their skulls like egg-shells.

CHAPTER V 2010

It's obvious that in his absurd voyage across egg-shells, he'd rather trot out bland PC nonsense than risk saying anything that might smack of conservatism.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

“Not were the walls of the turret of egg-shells, and the lake sheeted ice,” said Dryfesdale.

The Abbot 2008

Fuck me, you would be walking on egg-shells around the woman for fear of offering some offence.

Archive 2008-06-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

In a long-deserted habitation even egg-shells have been found fresh, not tending to corruption.

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

And again, “My account will be hard to follow: because it says something new but still has egg-shells from the old view sticking to it” (CV 44).

Vitro Nasu » 2005 » April 2005

And again, “My account will be hard to follow: because it says something new but still has egg-shells from the old view sticking to it” (CV 44).

Poking around Wittgenstein + Bruce Nauman 2005