Type of paint finish

Usage examples of eggshell.

They spent the last quarter hour at the office that way, Andi quietly brooding, Lena walking on eggshells and avoiding contact.

The bone splattered, the ethmoidal sinus ruptured into the olfactory bulb, which meant Les Pruel could no longer smell anything, and the copper-pointed slug did a wing-ding puree of the cerebrum taking the top of his head off like an eggshell surrendering to compressed air.

Suspended in a sea of milky white, the light of his life lay unmoving beneath a thin layer of eggshell sheets and pastel blankets, her hair haloed behind her head which was gently cradled by an oversized, hypoallergenic pillow.

And there was about it a pompous vacancy, an arrogant nonsensicalness, a latent peril resulting from such a large number of automatons in unquestioned positions, that should all logically indicate this: If Germany once broke, it would collapse somewhat like an eggshell.

Later the adults kissed Grandpa, giving him gentle abrazos so as not to cave hi his eggshell chest.

Later the adults kissed Grandpa, giving him gentle abrazos so as not to cave in his eggshell chest.

In front of the god-shape lay woven twigs and eggshells, so old as to be hardly more than dust.

Their craniums now caved in like eggshells, I dashed them to the cobblestones, spilling out their brains like porridge from broken bowls.

I tipped two and a half litres of Azzurro Blue eggshell over his head.

Beside a bronze head, such as the monk Roger Bacon possessed, which answered all the questions that were addressed to it and foretold the future by means of a magic mirror and the combination of the rules of perspective, lay an eggshell, the same which had been used by Caret, as d'Aubigne tells us, when making men out of germs, mandrakes, and crimson silk, over a slow fire.

Round about was a strew of papers, eggshells, calipers, and lenses: the birdlimed, dusty ruins, I feared, of oölogical research.

The offspring may eventually be packaged for release within a protective eggshell, together with an energy supply in the form of yolk—as in all birds, many reptiles, and monotreme mammals (the platypus and echidnas of Australia and New Guinea).

I used eggshells, sulfur, vitriol, arsenic, sal ammoniac, quartz, alkalis, oxides of rock, saltpeter, soda, salt of tartar, and potash alum.

I gived it back, I did, but they'll nae let me in again, save for once a year on Littlesun Eve when I be allooed to veesit Trowland for apeerie start—but a' I gets is eggshells tae crack atween me teeth followed by a lunder upon me lugs and a wallop ower me back.

The acid in the vinegar reacts with the calcium carbonate of the eggshell.