She concentrated instead on the delicate, fragile porcelain of her teacup, on the white satin tablecloth, and on the gray velvet cushions of her lounge chair.

This resulted in an inspiration for the Dutch ceramists, because this fragile porcelain was not created or seen before.

He shook them firmly by the hand - a comforting, hearty grasp that cheered Dexter, who had a pet dislike of cold hands proffered nervously like fragile porcelain.

From its center flew a living tern, fragile and white as porcelain in the darkness.

At length the big green truck arrived and we were bumping off to an anxious reception from Mrs. Anxious about her fragile porcelain, I should say.

Her book is a plea for rationality and a warning that rationality, like much else in the fragile porcelain of society, can be weakened by a lack of vigilance.

On the wall they watched as Tig circled the village again, running and weaving between the torches, his body like red-veined porcelain, almost translucent, almost fragile.

The fragile porcelain struck the step and shattered.

One rod broke, like fragile porcelain, as his hand pushed past it-the breaking was a shock, somehow he had been expecting the plants to have much greater strength.

His thin elven face with its finely sculpted features seemed to be made of fragile porcelain, and he always smiled carefully, as if fearing his face would break.