The leader of the animals made straight for the canoe, and the watchers trembled as they looked, for it was evident that one snap of the creatures' huge jaws would cave in the side of the canoe as if it were an eggshell.
"The Boy Aviators in Africa"
Captain Wilbur Lawton
Bulletin after bulletin came to port with its doleful tale of this vessel burned or that vessel scuttled, this one held by the pirates for their own use or that one stripped of its goods and sent into port as empty as an eggshell from which the yolk had been sucked.
"Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates"
Howard I. Pyle
She's as clean as an eggshell.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery