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And the cast shell of a locust, straw-colored and transparent, weighing nothing, fragile but entire, with eyes like bubbles and a gaping slit down its back.

He thought how this dainty, fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June, enjoying the flowers in the shops, the greetings from old friends, but never really drawing a deep, passionate breath, was so like himself.

Some liar's logic, a wisp of optimism as fragile as the scent of tropical blossoms that came through the window ( a euphoria perhaps engendered by the pill Fritzie had given her ), consoled her for a moment.

Finally, maintenance costs on plastic signs are much lower than on fragile neon signs.

The hymen is, in essence, a fragile membrane that more or less completely covers the entrance to the vagina in most female human beings who have not had sex relations.

Often it is thin and fragile and gives way readily to the male organ at the first attempt at intercourse.

Thornburg knew, better than any of them, that a public image was as fragile as Humpty Dumpty.

Chabrier's little one-act operetta, presented yesterday afternoon at Town Hall, is a fragile, precious little piece, very French, not without wit and charm.

But what is equally impressive is the delicacy and wonderful lyric quality of both the band and Mulligan's baritone sax in a fragile ballad like Bob Brookmeyer's arrangement of `` Django's Castle ''.

It was a face that had lost its childlike softness and was beginning to fold within its fragile features a harshness that belied the lyric lines of its contours.

An example of X-linked ataxic condition is the rare fragile X-associated tremor / ataxia syndrome.

Other villages in the Alps are considering becoming car free zones or limiting the number of cars for reasons of sustainability of the fragile Alpine terrain.

As its condition is fragile and it is a prized exhibit at the MCC Cricket Museum, the MCC were reluctant to agree.

Shaping Edwin ’ s ambitious journey in the world of the theater is his love of three women: the beautiful, strong-minded Julia Scarlet, whom he first meets in Ann Arbor ; the emotionally fragile and haunting Jessamy Lee, and the very private and mysterious leading lady Adelina Kane, idol of the American stage.

It can be extremely fragile and prone to bleeding.

Feral pigs, foxes, cats and rabbits are also imported animals that degrade the environment, so time and money is spent eradicating them in an attempt to help protect fragile rangelands.

The country has a high population density, few natural resources, and a fragile soil.

Many types of packaging can be made from biopolymers: food trays, blown starch pellets for shipping fragile goods, thin films for wrapping.

Sustained breaking of an enemy's ciphers can be a very fragile business.

" De La Colonie managed to rally some of his grenadiers, together with the remnants of the French dragoons and Greder Suisse battalions, but it was an entirely peripheral operation, offering only fragile support for Villeroi ’ s right flank.

At present, such areas comprise about 30, 000 km², and several are in countries where political stability is fragile.

" Film scholar Simon Louvish writes that the film showed the character becoming more fragile and melancholy.

However, his fragile health prevented the project from being realized.

Transistorized CPUs during the 1950s and 1960s no longer had to be built out of bulky, unreliable, and fragile switching elements like vacuum tubes and electrical relays.

This coalition proved fragile ; in January 1980, fighting broke out again between Goukouni's and Habré's forces.