The apple tart here was better than anything I had next door, deliciously ripe and with a fragile crust.

Sucked back to the surface by gravity, the reentering projectiles ripped more of the fragile crust away.

"Their beauty is different, and they have the quality of being vulnerable and also being strong, that sort of fragile crust."

It had a crust, fragile like a dry leaf, that led to a moist, downy layer of ground almonds and sugar.

Underneath the fragile crust, molten rock, or magma, was struggling to get out, pushed by forces deep in the planet's mantle.

I wanted to go to her and lift my hand and touch the skin which seemed absolutely impenetrable but which would break suddenly like the most fragile crust.

Appealing, too, were baked clams, sweet little numbers with a fragile crust of crumbs.

And yet, who in his position wouldn't feel heady emotions, seeing his own handiwork still throbbing, thousands of miles below the fragile crust?

All-terrain vehicles have torn up much of the fragile crust of the open land and eroded many of the back roads.

The entire deck was covered with jagged crystals and large projections up-thrust from what appeared to be a fragile crust.