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Meanings of broken crockery in English

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Usage of broken crockery in English
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In her hand, Sorina felt the broken crockery of the wine cup.
Gladiatrix
2
Among the oyster-shells were mixed many fragments of ancient, broken crockery ware.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
3
There was broken crockery scattered among the remains of furniture and charred floor-boards.
The Name of the Wind
4
For the rest, fragments of timber intermingled with pulverized coral and broken crockery.
The Wings of the Morning
5
The peer allowed he was, though his teeth was rattling like broken crockery.
Judith of the Plains
6
A near-by eating house had been completely wrecked, its floor a debris of broken crockery.
The Happy End
7
They picked their way through the broken crockery.
Stonewielder
8
Then followed a fusillade of broken crockery and promiscuous dodging of giggling maids and explosive men-servants.
Idle Hour Stories
9
As the two walked, their feet crunched on a layer of splintered glass and broken crockery.
Action Front
10
About you lie broken crockery and shattered earthenware.
Sermons on Biblical Characters
11
There's nothing but filth and broken crockery there.
The Swindler and Other Stories
12
On her side of town, whenever couples disagreed, the result usually involved bruised limbs and broken crockery.
The fifth servant
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I stopped, and looked at the dust and ashes, at the broken crockery and the old iron.
The Law and the Lady
14
My mother heard this, and so I summoned all my will, and said gaily, 'Poor broken crockery!
The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 2
15
Under the red copper basin of the sun, under the broken crockery of stars, Senegal, Nigeria, West Africa.
Unmanned
16
There were huge accumulations of broken crockery and of scraps of tin and other metal, and of bones.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 / Great Britain and ...
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