Слово "shell". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Every shell is solid gold;

And that basket was filled with a clot of straw—most likely all the straw from Bloody Mary's box—and that straw was mashed together and glued tight with dried-up raw egg and shell bits, mixed up with about three or four chewed-up baby chicken bodies.

She put it in her mouth and bit into a piece of walnut shell.

An aging ghost, he thought, cruelly reminded that his youthful spirit was living in a mortal shell.

I thought that of all the stately front nothing remained but a shell-like wall, very high and very fragile-looking.

In the moonlight I looked at his pale forehead, his closed eyes, his locks of hair that trembled in the wind, and I said to myself: "What I see here is nothing but a shell.

The Sound of the Shell

“Many, many thanks, indeed, Mr. Pinocchio, for having saved me the trouble of breaking my shell!

There was a crowd of eager, noisy, and good-humoured natives come from all parts of the island, some from curiosity, others to barter with the travellers on their way to Sydney; and they brought pineapples and huge bunches of bananas, tapa cloths, necklaces of shells or sharks` teeth, kava-bowls, and models of war canoes.

The old man pinched their heads off with his thumb and forefinger and ate them chewing up the shells and the tails.

A tortoise-shell comb nestled above each of Meggie’s ears; she tugged at one until it came free, and began to comb Agnes’s hair, which was genuine human hair, skillfully knotted onto a base of glue and gauze, and bleached until it was the color of gilded straw.

His head, supported by a long and flexible neck, issued from his large black robe, balancing itself with a motion very much like that of the tortoise thrusting his head out of his shell.

But she weighs enough when we had to carry her and stop to fire and then carry her again with the old woman lashing at Pablo with the rope and carrying his rifle, putting it in his hand when he would drop the girl, making him pick her up again and loading the gun for him while she cursed him; taking the shells from his pouches and shoving them down into the magazine and cursing him.

People lived on in it and there were hospitals and cafйs and artillery up side streets and two bawdy houses, one for troops and one for officers, and with the end of the summer, the cool nights, the fighting in the mountains beyond the town, the shell-marked iron of the railway bridge, the smashed tunnel by the river where the fighting had been, the trees around the square and the long avenue of trees that led to the square; these with there being girls in the town, the King passing in his motor car, sometimes now seeing his face and little long necked body and gray beard like a goat's chin tuft; all these with the sudden interiors of houses that had lost a wall through shelling, with plaster and rubble in their gardens and sometimes in the street, and the whole thing going well on the Carso made the fall very different from the last fall when we had been in the country.

Simultaneously two other shells burst in the air near the body as the hood twisted round in time to receive, but not in time to dodge, the fourth shell. The shell burst clean in the face of the Thing.

In the town there were more guns, there were some new hospitals, you met British men and sometimes women, on the street, and a few more houses had been hit by shell fire.

By the time we had finished with them they were only the shells of men.

While she was shelling peas, Calpurnia suddenly said,

Fuel had to be bought for the heating system by fall, but who was going to shell out for it - no one knew.

They are shelling quite a little still but it is all over.

Fuel had to be bought for the heating system by fall, but who was going to shell out for it - no one knew.