He was pleasantly conscious of the relief in Miss Hamilton's eyes when he reached it, and fancied that she was too overwrought and anxious to care whether he noticed it or not; but he set about making a fire, and she helped him to collect brittle undergrowth and fallen branches.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
She gave a short, brittle laugh.
"Fair and Warmer"
E. G. von Wald
Aren't the people here very brittle?
"Dot and Tot of Merryland"
L. Frank Baum