Something small and precious

Usage examples of nugget.

Nell came out, nine-tenths of a ton of daintiness, and rumbled admonitorily at Nugget, who trailed her closely.

But of course some allowance had to be made for men not making much above wages when they came suddenly on a biggish stone, and sticking the pick into it found it to be a gigantic nugget worth a small fortune.

FIFTEEN minutes later, Duster Corbin and Cliff Marsland sauntered from the Nugget Club.

The gas is acid and hot and Judah screams as his skin splits, but he does not withdraw his hand, and he makes his scream into a chant, and he forces all the energies he has learnt and all the techniques he has stolen up from his innards and focuses them with the glass-pure nugget of hate and revenge he finds in him and channels and lets go with a cathexis purer and stronger than he has ever felt before, and thaumaturgic energies pour from him and make a golem.

A dozen blocks away, a twenty-story cartoon cowboy leered and beckoned, pointing down at the neon slab of the New Gold Nugget at his feet.

I see them in the corners of my eyes: the nuggets of reality hidden in the tawdry, skanky mosaic that is Legend.

I dropped a few hamster nuggets into his bowl and made some smoochy sounds.

Kukushkin was the real McCoy, Manny knew that he had gotten his hands on a gold nugget.

He never gave Lo Manto too much information, forcing the detective to plot his moves based on the small nuggets tossed his way.

I knew there must be layers of truth, hidden beneath tine surface of what the Ambassador had told me, just as their nuggets of quagma had been inexpertly hidden beneath the regolith of their hollowed-out moon.

You love it when a false-flag recruitment produces a twenty-four-karat nugget.

There was a loud semi-liquid smack, as the nugget of cheese blew up with speed and violence, spattering the inside of the belljar with crumbs and oil.

Somehow, that big subcritical nugget must have got back in, and the breeding-cans, which were pretty ripe by that time, must have been shoved in too close to it and to one another.

Some said mechs ate the slimy nuggets, while others thought it was a lubricant.

It had been done by the Piutes in Colorado, eighty or ninety years ago, with gold nuggets for bait.