The Changeling has nothing peculiar in it; but the Brewery of Eggshellsis one which we find in many places, even in Brittany and Auvergne.
In the present version, the mother puts down eggshells to boil, and to the enquiry of the changeling she tells him that she is brewing them, and clapping his hands he says, "Well!
She ran crying into the house, and looked in the box, but rinding only a handful of wool and two empty eggshells in the box, threw them out of the window, along with a small feather which was under the wool.
The godmother then gave the queen many instructions concerning the rearing of the children, and told her to keep the box with the eggshells always beside them in the cradle, to ward off evil from them.
The spirit of Los Angeles, for example, was the same as that of the picnic party which, lunching on Ruskin's glacier, leaves its chicken bones and eggshells to offend all subsequent picnickers.
If they picnicked on a glacier they did up their eggshells in a neat package, which, in default of a handy bottomless pit, they took home with them and put in their garbage pails.
Thus, when old Nalb met his death from thirst, after finding that the store of water-filled ostrich-eggshells which he had cached a long time previously had been broached, Kanu was at once looked upon as the leader.
It was late in the afternoon of the third day when they reached the spot where the water-filled eggshells lay buried.
For each of two eggshells recently vacated, that were washed and squeezed dry, weights were approximately .
Houses were crushed like eggshells and the wreckage was carried four miles along the Miami to the fill on the main line of the Big Four.
Many of those rescued told of escaping from their homes by fractions of minutes, just before the rushing waters swept their homes away and crushed them like eggshells against bridges.
Absence of eggshellsin the vicinity suggests predation by snakes.
Parental Behavior No eggshells were found in nests on the days of hatching.
My mamma told me I must be careful, cos it wouldn't be very nice if the President of the 'Nited States had to go round to-morrow picking upeggshells after me!
She will have no power over you when you are grown up, and no one else can hurt you either, if only you are careful never to part from your basket, or to lose the eggshells that are in it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eggshells" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
