After a winter's gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley had beaked its way out into the open, moist and yellow.
After a winter's gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley had beaked its way out into the open, moist and yellow.
What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.
Eggshell trays where gay beaux knelt,
Hand on heart, and daintily spelt
Their love in flowers, brittle and bright,
Artificial and fragile, which told aright
The vows of an eighteenth-century knight.
Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleedingGhosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind
It starts off ... like a pressure pain, mostly around my left eye. ... When I get one I can't move my head, because ... it feels like my brain is swollen and moving around inside an eggshell. Sound is painful. Light is painful. I can't focus on anything.
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