What is "nutshells"

Usage examples of "nutshells".

Safe for the moment, the smaller male brandished a stick after him, achieving moral victory at low cost and healthy distance, then rummaged among the nutshells for bits of meat.

At the side of the road were piles of sawn nutshells, stacked like so many great bowls.

Most curiously of all, it appeared that she was both expecting and waiting for him, for as he rode towards her she turned on her perch to look towards him with a slow, confident smile of recognition and welcome, and when he was close she slid from the wail, brushing off the last nutshells, and shook down her skirts with the brisk movements of one making ready for action.

She was brown almost as her nutshells, with a warm rose-colour mantling beneath the tanned, smooth skin, and a mouth rose-red, and curled like the petals of a half-open rose.

Beneath its twisted gray branches and mottled brown and green leaves were broken and empty nutshells and the cores of fruit.

Also, there was enough meat left in the nutshells for him to half-satisfy the pangs in his belly.

The other merely shifts the nutshells about with his toe again, shivers, and sighs.