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Updated: May 14, 2025
It was a legless grub, fat, presumably blind, and helpless; and it would have fallen head downwards out of the cell, as it hatched, if it had not had the sense to hook its tail into its own egg-shell, which in turn, as we know, was already fastened to the top of the cell. But it had jaws, and in addition, apparently, an appetite to use them.
The legs of the trestle had given way, probably with the weight of the coffin, for the wood had become as brittle and dry as fine egg-shell. With the fall the mummied body had rolled out and landed on the ground. This, Freddy conjectured, was the explanation of the apparent desecration of the tomb.
Sallie became slowly transfixed in a spread-eagle attitude, with the half of a thin white egg-shell held up in each hand. "A maid! When's she coming?" "Ought to be here now, she's had time enough. But women never can get round without wasting a lot of time." Sallie's glance must have brought him to his senses, for he added hastily, "City women, I mean." "Hm!
This was Nature in a nut-shell, or rather egg-shell, turning her mishaps to some good account. If the egg will not make a bird, it will make food; if not food, then fertilizer. Among nearly all our birds, the female is the active business member of the partnership; she has a turn for practical affairs; she chooses the site of the nest, and usually builds it unaided.
After the egg has been smeared with red earth, it is thrown violently down and the contents and the fragments of egg-shell fall on the board. Auguries are drawn from the positions of the fragments of shell on the board, and from the fact of their lying with the inner sides facing upwards or downwards.
The difference indeed between these and the works of genius is not less than between an egg and an egg-shell; yet at a distance they both look alike.
If they are hungry, plates of soup will be brought to them on the bridge, and the North Sea will attend to its salting for them. Frequently this "meal" is interrupted by some announcement from the watch, such as: "Smoke on the horizon off the port bow." Then so we are told: The commander drops his plate, shouts a short, crisp command, and an electric alarm whirs inside the egg-shell.
It was cracked like an egg-shell, "smashed to smithereens," Tom said in telling the story later; but only one or two bits had fallen out. Idly attempting to fit these into place again, Emily caught sight of what she supposed was a sheet of note-paper, that had apparently made its way in between the back of the mirror and the frame.
"My dear friend, if you will be so kind as to break that egg, you will learn for yourself that I am not joking." Mechanically, Ganimard obeyed, and cracked the egg-shell with the blade of a knife. He uttered a cry of surprise. The shell contained nothing but a small piece of blue paper. At the request of Arsene he unfolded it.
When I tell you that he is Admiral Donald of the Mahomet, turned away like a servant, how does that make your lordships feel? A house divided against itself can't stand; and this gentleman has a scheme in his pocket he will read it to your lordships which will crack up the Empire of the Sea like an egg-shell!
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