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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Sylvie, see, he wants us to have ovolos in the cornice of the corridor." "Do you call those ovolos?" "Yes, mademoiselle." "What an odd name! I never heard it before." "But you have seen the thing?" "Yes." "Do you understand Latin?" "No." "Well, it means eggs from the Latin ovum." "What queer fellows you are, you architects!" cried Rogron. "It is stepping on egg-shells to deal with you."
The pottery found in this tomb offered no very distinctive features, being coarse and unglazed, but the numerous fragments of ostrich egg-shells, coloured and scratched with rough patterns in bands, also pointed to a Phoenician origin, or at least to a race of wide mercantile connection: and in those days the Phoenicians were the only people likely to combine in their commerce ostrich egg-shells and ivory.
"As thin as egg-shells, and with no more color in 'em than there is in that cha-ney saucer. Hark to that dry cough as keeps on a hack-hack-hackin' at him." "Pooh!" cried young Sennacherib. "He's been like that as long as I can remember him." "Mark my words," his mother answered, with a stronger air of doleful relish than before, "he'll niver be like that much longer."
In order to obtain it for daily use, a hollow reed was inserted into a small, inconspicuous aperture, left open for the purpose, and covered by a stone when the reed was not in use. The water was drawn up by suction, the women performing the operation by applying their lips to the upper end of the reed, filling the mouth with the fluid, and then discharging it into the egg-shells.
As we had a leathern bucket we were enabled to give our animals a drink, though we could not allow them as much as they would have liked. The Bosjeeman then, refilling the egg-shells, returned with us to where we had left his companions.
I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts. You may come in." Piero led the way through the first room, where a basket of eggs was deposited on the open hearth, near a heap of broken egg-shells and a bank of ashes.
While there are lees of wine, or dregs of beer, I'll never want her! Coin her out of cobwebs, Dust, but I'll have her! raise wool upon egg-shells, Sir, and make grass grow out of marrow-bones, To make her come! B. Jonson. Bearing Washington Hawkins and his fortunes, the stage-coach tore out of Swansea at a fearful gait, with horn tooting gaily and half the town admiring from doors and windows.
The Curral floor, smooth and bald, is cut by a silvery line of unsunned rivulet which at times must swell to a torrent; and little white cots like egg-shells are scattered around the normal parish-church, Nossa Senhora do Livramento.
The smith accordingly gathered as many broken egg-shells as he could get, went into the room, and proceeded to carry out all his instructions. He had not been long at work before there arose from the bed a shout of laughter, and the voice of the seeming sick boy exclaimed, "I am eight hundred years of age, and I have never seen the like of that before." The smith returned and told the old man.
But the act of setting spies which are in some way inanimate is mere dotage, and nothing is easier than to find a better plan than that of the beadle, who took it into his head to put egg-shells in his bed, and who obtained no other sympathy from his confederate than the words, "You are not very successful in breaking them."
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