They in like manner chewed the shells of some small grayish nuts, and threw away the kernels, which to me were very palatable.

Another minute and he had the tiny shell in hand.

A shell from her forward turret burst aboard the closest German vessel and there was a terrific explosion, followed by a series of blasts not so loud.

The waters of this little lake are clearer and more transparent than those of any other we had seen; we could see the white shells on its sandy bottom, fifteen feet below the surface.

" "Wish they'd let us put some six-inch shells into her," said Billy Edwards, the ensign, a wistful expression on his big round cheerful face.

It would appear that this infiltration of Foraminifera shells with Glauconite does not take place at great depths, but rather in what may be termed a sublittoral region, ranging from a hundred to three hundred fathoms.

Millions of shells for millions of dollars.

Cannons and howitzers fired shot and shell at any range up to the limit then reached, between two and three miles.

The biggest mortars threw 13-inch 224-lb shells to a great distance.

The Marlborough, still helpless, poured shell after shell upon the enemy.

The shelling of the cavalry during the day had been rather hot, and enemy airmen had occasionally bombed them.

The trial in battle is to be kept standing under fire, not sure where your enemy is; and then you noticed that our own guns behind us, sending shot and shells over us, were just as trying as the rebels'.

The man behind the counter served him, too, in regular turn; and Dick felt it a point of honor to empty the half-shell before him as quickly as any of the rest.

Dress all the meat out of the belly and claws of your lobster, put it into a stew-pan, with two or three spoonfuls of water, a spoonful or two of white wine vinegar, a little pepper, shred mace, and a lump of butter, shake it over the stove till it be very hot, but do not let it boil, if you do it will oil; put it into your dish, and lay round it your small claws:it is as proper to put it in scallop shells as on a dish. 129.

I think, myself, if every idea our Book contains could be shelled out of its old symbol and put into a new, clean, unmagnetic word, we should have some chance of reading it as philosophers, or wisdom-lovers, ought to read it,which we do not and cannot now, any more than a Hindoo can read the "Gayatri" as a fair man and lover of truth should do.

There was a good deal of shelling by the Turks, but they fired at our new positions and interfered but little with the bridge construction.

Wounds, mortal wounds, were unheeded so long as the man still had strength to stagger on; I have seen a sergeant with a great fragment of common shell through his lungs run forward for several hundred yards vomiting blood, but still encouraging his men, who, truth to tell, were as eager as he.

To have to do anythingto order me a new coat, for instance, though my old buttons are shelled like beansis an effort.

These hollow shells about us were like the picked cadavers of houses.

"Yes, if you would be ashamed of two little pink shells among your pretty curls.

The ball glanced harmlessly from his massive shell against the ledge behind him, and starting from his sleep, he clambered lazily and clumsily into the water.

Here and there, however, this hardened mud of the ancient sea reveals the remains of higher animals which have lived and died, and left their hard parts in the mud, just as the oysters die and leave their shells behind them, in the mud of the present seas.

The Albert and Victoria also had fallen in line, though badly battered by the effects of the German shells during the night.

To thee, Araby's daughter,' Thus warbled a Perl, beneath the deep sea, 'No pearl ever lay under Onan's dark water, More pure in its shell than thy spirit in thee.'

Nature puts a shell around the egg with the express purpose that we are to keep our fingers out and let her alone.