nut-shells

The sentinel throws away a handful of nut-shells, shoulders his musket, and away they go together.

Pictures from Italy 2007

Now I do not know whether it was that they had eaten till they were too fat, or whether they had become proud, but they would not go home on foot, and the cock had to build a little carriage of nut-shells.

Household Tales 2003

The gates of the fortress shall be crushed more easily than nut-shells; the walls shall crumble; cities shall burn; and the scourge of God shall not cease!

Herodias 2003

Lucius Antony, likewise Mark's brother, charges him with pollution by Caesar; and that, for a gratification of three hundred thousand sesterces, he had submitted to Aulus Hirtius in the same way, in Spain; adding, that he used to singe his legs with burnt nut-shells, to make the hair become softer [207].

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

A full moon shines over all, and a caldron on a tripod holds fortunes tied in nut-shells.

The Book of Hallowe'en Ruth Edna Kelley

If it be so, replies the genie, I tell thee that thou hast killed my son, and the way was thus; when you threw your nut-shells about, my son was passing by, and you threw one of them into his eye, which killed him; therefore I must kill thee.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Anonymous

Among the indistinct, but most pleasing recollections of the home of her early childhood, was one of a boy with curly black hair and smiling face, who brought her beautiful flowers, and made for her rabbits out of his handkerchief, and pretty little boats out of nut-shells.

Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Emily Mayer Higgins

Lucius Antony, likewise Mark's brother, charges him with pollution by Caesar; and that, for a gratification of three hundred thousand sesterces, he had submitted to Aulus Hirtius in the same way, in Spain; adding, that he used to singe his legs with burnt nut-shells, to make the hair become softer [207].

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

The _carriage_ of _nut-shells_; the _Duck_ they met; the

A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

Another, with a basket full of nut-shells, came to sell him confections.

Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers