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Sentences ending with shell

He had a wound, which had been a bad one, evidently got from a piece of shell. [9]
Yes, the nation was excited, but Senator Dilworthy was calm--what was left of him after the explosion of the shell. [5]
The house threatened to give way at any moment: one end of it was sinking, and, in fact, the building looked a mere shell. [5]
With us three things were best: grapes, oranges, and especially oysters, of which we had provided a half barrel in the shell. [6]
Blue points, on the half shell. [5]
Well, a man that is packed away like that is a nut that isn't worth the cracking, there is so little of the meat, when you get down to it, by comparison with the shell. [5]
And a scholar's study, with the books lining its walls, is his shell. [6]
You are growing more and more self-centred, surrounding yourself with a hard shell. [9]
The fair exterior may be only a shell. [4]
It had sounded like Clam Shell. [9]

Sentences containing shell two or more times

True a flatboat will float faster than an egg shell and the egg shell might be blown away by the wind, but if under the same influence they would go the same way. [7]
He grows to his shell, and his shell is in his body as much as his body is in his shell.--I don't think there is one of our boarders quite so testudineous as I am. [6]
A shell had broken one wing of it, and this portion had been abandoned; but the faithful Sisters clung still to their home, though urged constantly by the Governor to retire to the Hotel Dieu, which was outside the reach of shot and shell. [11]
It is n't a mollusk's shell, either; it 's a caddice-worm's shell. [6]

More example sentences with the word shell in them

Even after three years of more or less intimacy between us, Farrar still wore his exterior of pessimism and indifference, the shell with which he chose to hide a naturally warm and affectionate disposition. [9]
Had hell indeed yawned, and were the flames soaring up to the sky through the riven shell of the earth? [10]
That man was wounded by a trick of fate, by a cussed bit of shell from your coehorns while eating his dinner in Vicksburg. [9]
And then you wonder that such a charming moth could come from such a forbidding shell as that. [5]
The big parlor, with its photographs and stereoscope, and bits of shell and mineral, a piano and a melodeon, and a coveted old sideboard of mahogany, recalled rural New England. [4]
The church-tower on which it had once stood erect had been struck by a German shell, but its steel rod had bent and not broken. [9]
Every sentence with which he dismisses a refractory subordinate is a nut of which the shell must be cracked in order to get at the kernel. [10]
And one night when we was wet to the skin and the Boschs was droppin' shell all around us we got the word. [9]
But if you were, if you had a hand in the making of your funny little story, there's a nutcracker that 'd break the shell of that joke--" He turned round quickly, seeing a shadow and hearing a movement. [11]
If a shell was bursting close over us, we stopped talking and stood still;-- uncomfortable, yes, but it wasn't safe to move. [5]
A white shell walk divided the garden and ended at the door of a low outbuilding, from the chimney of which blue smoke curled upward in the evening air. [9]
A shell tore up the earth two paces from Pierre and he looked around with a smile as he brushed from his clothes some earth it had thrown up. [2]
Had to use up every shell in my own gun, an' they did, too, as I seen. [13]
After he went through all this, he was hit by a piece of mortar shell, while sitting at his dinner. [9]
In due time the world seizes upon these wondrous youth, opens the shell of their possibilities like the valves of an oyster, swallows them at a gulp, and they are for the most part heard of no more. [6]
From one of the walls a fountain plashed into a large shell garlanded with green aquatic plants and tenanted by several goldfish and frogs. [10]
Hodder clung to the shell of reality, to the tiny panorama of the visible and the finite, to the infinitesimal gropings that lay recorded before him on the printed page. [9]
Through the mist the guns of the city were pouring shot and shell out into Ali Wad Hei's camp, and Ali Wad Hei laughed contemptuously. [11]
Then shall beauty--Divinity taking outlines and color--light upon the souls of men as the butterfly, image of the beatified spirit rising from the dust, soars from the shell that held a poor grub, which would never have found wings, had not the stone been lifted. [6]
Some authors, however, suppose that the cartilage of the shell serves to transmit vibrations to the acoustic nerve; but Mr. Toynbee (29. [1]
With the first stroke the trim shell of a thing shot out from the shore like an arrow. [5]
There is a story in every man's life, like the kernel in the shell of a hickory nut. [9]
The smoking shell spun like a top between him and the prostrate adjutant, near a wormwood plant between the field and the meadow. [2]
Inside of a somewhat unpromising shell, Mr. Zeb Meader was a human being, and no mean judge of men and motives. [9]
The last will show you the series of enlarging compartments successively dwelt in by the animal that inhabits the shell, which is built in a widening spiral. [6]
Then came the shell that shattered his body. [9]
Presently the long shell swept into view, with its blooming rowers, who, with their ample dresses, seemed to fill it almost as full as Raphael fills his skiff on the edge of the Lake of Galilee. [6]
The whole external shell may be considered a rudiment, together with the various folds and prominences (helix and anti-helix, tragus and anti-tragus, etc. [1]
One night a shell burst in front of the hole and caved it in and stopped it up. [5]
A scholar must shape his own shell, secrete it one might almost say, for secretion is only separation, you know, of certain elements derived from the materials of the world about us. [6]
Had I, during recent years, as a result of a discovery that emotions arising from human relationships lead to discomfort and suffering, deliberately been forming a shell, until now I was incapable of natural feelings? [9]
It was painfully quiet, as if a beaten people had crawled away into the holes our shot and shell had made, to hide their misery. [11]
Meanwhile still more projectiles, now with the swift sinister whistle of a cannon ball, now with the agreeable intermittent whistle of a shell, flew over people's heads incessantly, but not one fell close by, they all flew over. [2]
A distinguished physiologist, Prof. Preyer, informs me that he had lately been experimenting on the function of the shell of the ear, and has come to nearly the same conclusion as that given here. [1]
Suddenly she had pierced the hard layers of the outer shell, and had heard the imprisoned spirit crying with a small persistent voice,--a spirit stifled for many years and starved--and yet it lived and struggled still. [9]
Vain every pictured phrase to tell Our sorrowing hearts' desire; The shattered harp, the broken shell, The silent unstrung lyre; For youth was round us while he sang; It glowed in every tone; With bridal chimes the echoes rang, And made the past our own. [6]
With respect to perfection, the following illustration will best shew how easily we may err: a Crinoid sometimes consists of no less than 150,000 pieces of shell (71. [1]
It was a perfect building two hundred and fifty years ago, when a shell dropped into the Venetian magazine stored here, and the explosion which followed wrecked and unroofed it. [5]
She now stood opposite to Henrica, called her, shook her and sprinkled her with perfumed water from the large shell, set in gold, which hung as an essence bottle from her belt. [10]
For lack of one I had been rudely jolted out of the frail shell I had thought so secure, and stood, as it were, naked and shivering to the storms, staring at a world that was no function of me, after all. [9]
A delicate emphasis on the word shell implied that the Colonel knew what was what. [6]
Isn't the house of the snail as much to him as the turtle's shell to the turtle? [11]
But the worst of it was, the baggage seemed to trouble less than I, and had the effrontery to tell me how happy she was I had come out of my shell, and broken loose from her apron-strings. [9]
Time and a narrowing subscription list proved too hard a trial, and its four volumes remain stranded, like some rare and curiously patterned shell which a storm of yesterday has left beyond the reach of the receding waves. [6]
If I can make sahtisfahctory arrangements with my present corpse of teachers, I shall be glad to do so; otherwise I shell, with the permission of the Trustees, make sech noo arrangements as circumstahnces compel. [6]
Apparently they can't make anything out of his condition, but think it's shell shock. [9]
This brick house, magnificent by comparison with other dwellings in this country, seemed to us, on nearer acquaintance, only a thin, crude shell of a house, half unfinished, with bare rooms, the plastering already discolored. [4]
At his feet lay the great mosque, and the citadel, whose guns controlled the city, could pour into it a lava stream of shot and shell. [11]
He had felt it for the first time when the shell spun like a top before him, and he looked at the fallow field, the bushes, and the sky, and knew that he was face to face with death. [2]
Sometimes a dinner-table is disordered by a riotous shell. [11]
If the shell is chipped, it is spoiled. [9]
The corpse lay in a shallow shell, and was under cover of a white cloth, but was otherwise naked. [5]
Presently there appeared in a large shell, as though lounging in a bath, the goddess of health; she was drawn by eight snow-white horses, and held in one hand a golden goblet and in the other a caduceus. [10]
He went into his shell and deliberated long and profoundly. [5]
He stooped with her to pick it up, and when their heads nearly touched, she whispered hurriedly: "Nine o'clock this evening in the shell grotto; the garden will be open. [10]
The cook, with her thigh broken by a shell splinter, had been carried into the kitchen. [2]
For observe, you have here no splendid array of petals such as poets offer you,--nothing but a dry shell, containing, if you will get out what is in it, a few small seeds of poems. [6]
He had solidified hair--solidified with pomatum; it was all one shell. [5]
Shot and shell had made wicked havoc. [11]
There was nothing further to be done to bring him out of his shell, and seemingly nothing more to be learned about him at present. [6]
If Colonel Grierson found the Confederacy "a mere shell," so far as his equestrian excursion carried him, how can we say how soon the shell will collapse? [6]
It is rather expected that the lawyers will divide the oyster between them and leave the shell to the contestants. [4]
For he himself did not understand his own strange power of drawing forth the spirit from its shell, of compelling the inner, suffering thing to reveal itself. [9]
Not until then did I realize that a monster shell had burst beside the trenches in front of the city. [9]
Presently the scoffer continued: "The Duvarneys would remain in the city, and on that very night, as they sit at dinner, a shell disturbs them, a splinter strikes Madame, and two days after she is carried to her grave. [11]
Presently a shell carried away part of the pilot-house and considerably disturbed its inmates. [5]
George is hit by a shell and almost killed nearly a month ago, and not a word do I hear of it until I get that message in your house yesterday! [9]
To him the bursting of the shell was the bursting of the conflict within him. [9]
Lise had often boasted of a taste for oysters on the shell, though really preferring them smothered with red catsup in a "cocktail. [9]
I've done a bit o' nursin'--there was Bob Critchett that got a splinter o' shell in 'is 'ead, and there was Sergeant Hoyle and others. [11]
One's individuality should betray itself in all that surrounds him; he should _secrete_ his shell, like a mollusk; if he can sprinkle a few pearls through it, so much the better. [6]
At my uncle's approach he would retire into his shell like an oyster, nor could he be got to utter more than a monosyllable in his presence. [9]
Nor was there any lack of plastic creations in the spacious apartment, to which the flashing of the water poured by a powerful man from the goatskin bottle on his shoulder into a shell lent a special charm. [10]
The wife of an oyster-fisher from Rozel Bay, who lived in hourly enmity with the oyster-fishers of Carteret, gashed his cheek with the shell of an ormer. [11]
If I went among them as a gentleman, there would be restraints and conventionalities which would shut me out from their private joys and troubles, and I should get no further than the outside shell. [5]
Also deviled whitebait; also shrimps of choice quality; and a platter of small soft- shell crabs of a most superior breed. [5]
It was the act of a fool, to fire his shot and shell into the mist without aim, without a clear target. [11]
I am ill acquainted with the arts of a biographer, but I seek to give in these pages little of the shell and the whole of the kernel of mine. [9]
I am like a snail and very rarely leave my shell. [10]
Every ten seconds a cannon ball flew compressing the air around, or a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and splashing with blood those near them. [2]

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