The fool thought this brittle thing to be the real gem now lying before him, as the ignorant sot believes the sparkling sands to be the dusts of the purest gold.
Know that his brittle earthen pot also, was broken down in course of a short time; and he came to know the frailty of all his habitations, as an unfortunate man finds the fickleness of all the hopes and helps, which he fondly lays hold upon.
He came to behold before him a brittle piece of glass, shining with its false glare as the former gem; and this was placed in his presence by the invisible hands of the siddha that had come to tempt him and deride his folly.
Moreover, this same carburizing action of the fuel would at times go so far as to turn part of the metal into a true cast iron, so brittle that it could not be worked at all.
But this sudden cooling goes too far, preserving so much [beta]-iron as to make the steel too brittle for most purposes.
These differ, because the caldarium is only melted, and is brittle to the hammer; whereas the regulare is malleable or ductile.
A dust of splintered diamond across their faces, an aureole of brittle light to crown their heads.
Stark watched it go, and listened to the brittle snapping of the ice, the final crashing of a million shards at the bottom far below.
Just as the arteries harden with advancing years, as the bones become brittle and as other tissues become less flexible, so changes are likely to occur in the nervous system.
This is a collection of Hearn's earliest writings, resurrected from the brittle yellow pages of old New Orleans newspapers by Charles Woodward Hutson.
We went down through tilted funnels of crag, avoiding jumping off places by crossing slides of brittle slate and shale, hailing a dead tree as an oasis.
A great tree of wisteria lifted itself above one of the windows, and on the other a clematis clung with its wiry, brittle shoots.
She went then with Janet to the shops--she, and her sixty pounds, gripped tight in brittle ten-pound notes in her purse.
It is not durable in soil and becomes brittlewith age.
Durability is the chief merit of this soft, brittle wood, which is easily worked with the Indian's crude tools.
It grows vigorously from seed, and stands transplanting, if care is used that the brittle roots are not mutilated nor dried.
The broad rounded head, often borne on three or more spreading stems, is formed of drooping graceful branches, ending in brittle twigs.
It is one of the poorest of trees for street planting, because it has a sprawling habit and weakbrittle wood.
The day was exceedingly hot, and our horses' hoofs were so brittle that pieces flew off them like splinters when they struck them against the stones.
The lead dropped out of our pencils, our signal rockets were entirely spoiled; our hair, as well as the wool on the sheep, ceased to grow, and our nails had become as brittle as glass.
In a moment he started up, with a bound, to his feet, casting a fearful look on the bottom of the chair, and clasping the supposed brittle region with his hands, to ascertain whether he was in reality uninjured.
I shall guard the vital and brittle parts from your evil intention.
And why do you delay this act of kindness and duty," said I, with a look fixed on her eyes, "when you and all others are aware how very brittle a thread life hangs by?
I am determined," said I, resolutely, "to break this brittle appendage.
Like kissing swords Our wits clashed there; the brittle beauty of words Breaking, seemed to discover its secret heart And all the rapt elusiveness of Art.
Going back to the bank, the trapper skirts through the crush of brittlerushes round the swamp.
A lapping of the water against the brittle flags and a water-snake has splashed away to some dark haunt.
The zircon is rather more brittle and the artificially whitened zircons (known as jargoons) are especially subject to breakage when worn in rings.
It is not only soft but very brittle and it will crack very easily.
Bowenite, while tough, is relatively soft and amazonite is brittle and also easily cleavable, while glass is both soft and brittle.
They consisted mainly of minute jagged cracks of the character peculiar tobrittle materials such as both emerald and tourmaline.
Most hard stones are more or less brittle and would shatter if struck a sharp blow.
With hardness evidently between 7 and 8 and with double refraction and with the kind of flaws peculiar to rather brittle minerals we had in all probability either a tourmaline or an emerald.
The sharp jagged flaws and cracks that so often appear in emerald are likely to appear also in tourmaline as both are brittle materials.
A fungus disease often attacks them, causing dry hard patches, and not only spoiling the color but also making the material so brittle that it breaks in the preparation of the straw.
The franc-tireur in charge of the wine-bin watches us complaisantly from his counter where he sits flanked by flasks of Hoboken chianti and a case of brittle cigars.
I was wrong to make you as I did, for a more useless, conceited and brittlething never before existed.
It's prob'ly brittleand might break if it bumped against anything.
I'm not so brittle as you think," retorted the cat.
We tried every method that could be devised, but without success, for each time we broke the outer casing the morebrittle core was also shattered by the blow.
The blistering sand showered in our faces, and the brittle twigs of the mallee cut us severely.
When boiling loaf sugar, add a tablespoonful of rum or vinegar, to prevent its becoming too brittle whilst making.
In short, the most brittle glass can be wrought almost as easily as brass by the use of cutting tools kept constantly moist with camphorized oil of turpentine.
Boil a pound of clarified sugar until, upon taking a drop of it on a piece of stick, it will become brittle when cold.
I see a train of helpless little folks; me and my exertions all their stay: and on what a brittle thread does the life of man hang!
They had capered about, striking the ground with their tails at the end of each playful jump, and the dry, brittle salt-bushes had been feast enough to them, who never knew the taste of grass or water.
