...Percerin was nearly eighty years old, nevertheless still fresh, and at the same time so dry, the courtiers used to say, that he was positively brittle... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...254) has brittle foot-stalks, so that the clusters of fruit are often blown off; this variety is said to be particularly attractive to wasps and bees...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...After the termination of a fatal case,this gland is found either soft or more brittle than it ought to be, elseit is discovered much enlarged...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...The fat, likethat of all ruminating animals, becomes, on cooling, hard and brittle...
Ambrose Blacklock 「A Treatise on Sheep:」
...The grain is partially baked, swells up and becomes brittle,the husk cracking, when it is scraped up and lifted out with the ladle,the sand being riddled through back into the pan...
Joshua A. Nunn 「Notes on Stable Management in India and the Colonies」
...What can be the nature of that singular lidwhereof the Cerambyx furnishes me with the first specimen? It is ashard and brittle as a flake of lime-stone...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...Shells of infertile eggs became brittle and slimy after several weeks...
John M. Legler 「Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz」
...The outer layer of the shell of a freshly laid egg is brittle andcracks when the egg is dented...
John M. Legler 「Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz」
...At the age of eighteenhe had still another dream, this time seeing a brittle thread in the airsuspended by a voice saying, "Woe unto you if you preach not the gospel...
Various 「The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916」
...Both pickling and hot galvanizing reduce thestrength, distort and render brittle iron and steel wires of smallsections...
William N. Brown 「Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition」
...And he thanked her, and weened ithad been so, but she was false, for the sword and the scabbard was counterfeit,and brittle, and false...
Thomas Malory 「Le Morte D’Arthur, Volume I (of II)」
...The chemical compositionof bones and tissue alters, jointsbecome stiff, muscles atrophied, andbones brittle...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930」
...Makes metal as brittle as glass...
Various 「Astounding Stories, April, 1931」
...Theirlimbs had not been twisted off as afreak of the fall but had been cleanlybroken off, as though the bodies hadsuddenly become brittle and had shatteredon their impact with the ground...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930」
...At such a temperature,even stellanium has less strengththan the most brittle substance...
Sterner St. Paul Meek 「Giants on the Earth」
...The light hadtaken on a hard, brittle appearanceand its hiss had risen to a scream...
Clifford Donald Simak 「Hellhounds of the Cosmos」
...Their brittle bones cracked under his hammer blows...
Arthur Leo Zagat 「The Great Dome on Mercury」
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