Eggshell parameters, and residues of PCB and DDE in eggs from Danish herring gulls, Larus a.
Viability of embryos is greatly reduced when the eggshell becomes smeared with oil from the contaminated plumage of the female (Hartung 1965).
Why, the beautiful white eggshell he hatched out of was dirty when he pipped it, and never in all his growing-up days did he see his mother or father really clean house.
One, who came out of his eggshell before his brothers, was named Peter, for his father.
There had been no sun or wind in his eggshell world.
Hatchlings usually make several longitudinal slits in the eggshell with the egg tooth before emerging, and often require a day or more to emerge after the first slit is made.
Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent.
My lovely boxes were all knocked over, and the nests torn to bits, and there wasn't so much as an eggshell left.
When you try to chaff people, it is like an elephant dancing oneggshell china.
The ingredients are handed down in traditional form: "An eggshell full of salt, an eggshell full of malt, and an eggshell full of barley-meal.
The female tends to keep her eggs in a compact cluster, shifting their position frequently so that no part of an eggshell adheres to its surroundings long enough for rotting to occur, and most of the surface of each egg is exposed to the air.
An eggshell sealed in prolonged contact with the soil tends to rot with the result that it is easily ruptured, and even if it is not broken there is the likelihood of fungi or microorganisms gaining entry and killing the embryo.
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This remark seemed to our hero to savour of unreasoning contempt of danger, for the facing of a tropical squall in such an eggshell appeared to him the height of folly.
Besides, it is not so much of aneggshell as you suppose.
You don't mean to say you ever go to sea in an eggshell like that!
Well, you're queer fellows in a queer eggshell for such waters.
To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
It caught at them with a thousand arms; it tossed them up, bore them down, tore them from the light eggshell praus, crushing them to bits.
After feeling that great ship so helpless against the waves, it seemed impossible that a mere eggshell could float over them.
May they curl themselves into aneggshell and be your guests to-morrow.
Christmas crumb"[100] andeggshell from between two Christmases; 9.
So when the day of the reap came the woman did all that the Wise Man ordered, and put the eggshell on the fire and took it off and carried it to the door, and there she stood and listened.
Then she heard one of the children say to the other: Acorn before oak I knew, An egg before a hen, But I never heard of an eggshell brew A dinner for harvest men.
The slight cohesion caused by the water which moistens the plate counteracts the centrifugal force and so prevents the eggshell falling off the edge of the plate.
March 2--That afternoon I planted the cabbage in a tin can with tissue paper around it, because the cabbage outgrew the eggshell some time ago.
Yes; a plant growing in an eggshellconstitutes a garden.
They consider that they have been unjustly punished, and I am in sympathy with them; and they believe they could make a house to live in out of that eggshellif they could only think of a way to stick it together again.
Only see, Jerry, they are studying that eggshell as though they thought they could make one.
Station Z quivered like an eggshell in the hand of a giant.
Even at anchorage the launch was swinging like an eggshell in a tempest.
He pulled himself together with an effort, just as the eggshell cup and saucer were slipping from his relaxing grasp.
In the daytime grand and sweeping white clouds on a sky of eggshell blue group themselves about the great gray building.
A wax or eggshell oil-varnish finish is most suitable for this set, but any other finish may be applied, as the builder may desire, to make it harmonize with other furnishings.
Some, however, of these eggshell plates have no diaper work, the sole decoration consisting of two cocks, beautifully enamelled, near rocks and foliage.
Similar eggshell plates may have landscapes or flowers as the central decoration with or without diaper borders.
To the eggshell china belong the delicate Mandarin vases which, probably, were made for exportation.
The eggshell porcelain of Japan is not ancient, but near Tokio a factory produces saki cups which are exceedingly pretty, being elegant in shape and decoration and having a thin delicate paste.
One eggshell plate, enamelled with chrysanthemums and a sparrow, and with sprays of peonies round the border, on pink diaper-pattern ground, 8 in.
The plate with the seven borders is the most famous of these eggshell ruby-back plates.
