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Meanings of egg-shell in English
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Usage of egg-shell in English
1
It was adjusted to crack an egg-shell or smash an iron-bound trunk.
2
Its curved bulkhead glows with the soft egg-shell pastel of Jesus' halo.
3
And as for eggs, how could I ever break through an egg-shell?
4
I tell you I heard the child's skull crack like an egg-shell!
5
There was a shallop resting upon the clear water lightly as an egg-shell.
6
Mechanically, Ganimard obeyed, and cracked the egg-shell with the blade of a knife.
7
Little snapping-turtles snap-sothe great naturalist tells us-beforethey are out of the egg-shell.
8
The next instant she felt it crumble like an egg-shell.
9
We have said that the birch canoe was an egg-shell.
10
Already the frail embarkation was tossed about like an egg-shell.
11
This is the real egg-shell pottery of the Ming dynasty.
12
The little pinky, her sails close reefed, tossed up and down, like an egg-shell.
13
Can its voice still the billows that can crush the steamer like an egg-shell?
14
And Reddin had done the same thing next day with a bit of egg-shell china.
15
The side of the box crushed as easily as if it had been an egg-shell.
16
A louse and a flea kept house together and were brewing beer in an egg-shell.
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