"Thin-shelled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... full Of leaves, notched round, and lined with wool, From which it tenderly shook the dew Over our heads, when we came to play In its handbreadth of shadow, day after day. Afraid to go home, Sir; for one of us bore A nest full of speckled and thin-shelled eggs,— The other, a bird, held fast by the legs, Not so big as a straw of wheat: The berries we gave her she wouldn't eat, But cried and cried, till we held her bill, So slim and shining, to ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 56, June, 1862 • Various
... pignut, with three, five or seven narrow leaflets, small, thin-shelled fruit and a pretty ...
— Among the Trees at Elmridge • Ella Rodman Church
... impossible to avoid associating such a formation with the fine, smooth, homogeneous clays and schists, poor in fossils, but showing worm- tubes and tracks, and bunches of doubtful branching things, such as Oldhamia, silicious sponges, and thin-shelled peculiar shrimps. Such formations, more or less metamorphosed, are very familiar, especially to the student of palaeozoic geology, and they often attain a vast thickness. One is inclined, from the great resemblance between ...
— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley |
