A noisy fly, the first of his kind, buzzed over the plate where the empty eggshells lay beside the bowl, and from them crawled to the scattered sugar that sparkled carelessly upon the rim.
A ship would be dashed to pieces like an eggshell against these cliffs.
At last one eggshell after another began to crack.
Many of those rescued told of escaping from their homes by fractions of minutes, just before the rushing waters swept their homes away and crushed them like eggshells against bridges.
The broken eggshells may lie in the old nest, but the fledged larks are singing in the blue of the sky.
The chick which cannot break the eggshell, the caterpillar that fails to suspend itself properly or to spin a safe cocoon, the bees that lose their way or that fail to store honey, inevitably perish.
The second and central point which concerns me is that, throughout their preparation of children for the ordeal, the police are walking on eggshells.
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The police are treading on eggshells when they prepare children.
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As it is a district matter, people will be treading on eggshells.
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He tiptoed on eggshells all over the issue, and that was quite unnecessary.
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To start with he was very tentative about it because he realised that he was treading on eggshells by mentioning it.
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They looked all right outside, but when they were faced with the infection and cold of the winter they just cracked like eggshells.
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Books, television, broadcasting programmes and membership of the numerous ornithological societies are the way to evoke interest and spread knowledge nowadays, and not the encouragement of the collection of eggshells.
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Land was formed from the lower part of one of the eggshells while sky formed from the top.
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We walk on eggshells in terms of telling stories about his character.
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Unlike the rupture of the bald eagle eggshells, the golden eagles shells retained their thickness.
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A recent archaeological study found remains of eggshells among the remains of human fires, suggesting that the eggs regularly provided meals for entire families.
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Footprints, eggshells, teeth, and fragments of bone representing theropods, sauropods, and ornithopods have been found, but none of them are diagnostic to the genus level.
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The engravings are found on ostrich eggshells that were used as water containers.
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The lines that he had crumpled like eggshells a year before stood up under his charges, often dumping him back for losses.
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A recent archaeological study found fragments of eggshells among the remains of human fires, suggesting that the eggs regularly provided meals for entire families.
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