nutshells

"Don't go for anything made from ground-up nutshells," said Los Angeles facialist Kate Somerville.

Scrubbing Off Indian Summer 2011

He tends to scatter bread crusts, nutshells and rinds around the house, as if he wants to create mess, though he does pick these up if requested and likewise small jobs like laying the table.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

He tends to scatter bread crusts, nutshells and rinds around the house, as if he wants to create mess, though he does pick these up if requested and likewise small jobs like laying the table.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

Your ‘nutshell’ answers really are ‘nutshells’ huh?

Think Progress » Steele on serving as RNC chair: God has ‘placed me here for a reason.’ 2010

It has moved among the mountains in the fog, shuffled like a pea among four nutshells to fool those who would seize upon our treasures and our sacred flames.

Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010

It has moved among the mountains in the fog, shuffled like a pea among four nutshells to fool those who would seize upon our treasures and our sacred flames.

Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010

It is only spotted with the pistachio nutshells, or a Peanut M&M from my own nocturnal eating.

Vicki Iovine: The Girlfriends' Guide: Sleeping Single Terrifies Me 2010

I'm also tying this to Marilyn French's theory in Beyond Power, but it's hard to come up with an aphorism that nutshells her theory.

Outline: The Negotiation of Power in Middleton's Revenger's Tragedy fantasyecho 2008

Terèsa never let the task grow dull; sometimes we were treasure-seekers, and the nutshells were rubies from the hoard of Frumuşeaua, or we were soldiers under siege on Bíla Hora, finding food to survive while we held the holy ground.

Broken Places « A Fly in Amber 2008

That pretty much nutshells the current state of affairs.

Republican Anarchists Continue Climate Obstruction 2009