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The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 Cosmos Mindeleff

A whole section of the wall around the chimney spalls off.

The Other Side of Dark Sarah Smith 2010

Perhaps my favorite excerpt laugh is: ...far from being a volume of tailings, or chips and spalls swept up from the workshop floor, there are some challenging, and at the very least, interesting poems in these pages that belie the usual connotations of an “uncollected” collection.

AHADADA DOESN'T MIND "YET ANOTHER COLLECTION" FROM MOI! 2009

Perhaps my favorite excerpt laugh is: ...far from being a volume of tailings, or chips and spalls swept up from the workshop floor, there are some challenging, and at the very least, interesting poems in these pages that belie the usual connotations of an “uncollected” collection.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

He cleaned the kitchen windowsill, dust, hair, fly heads, flakes of plaster—stony little spalls.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

He cleaned the kitchen windowsill, dust, hair, fly heads, flakes of plaster—stony little spalls.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

He cleaned the kitchen windowsill, dust, hair, fly heads, flakes of plaster—stony little spalls.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

He had gathered spalls of rock in a heap which delicately now, one by one, he plopped in the water.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

He had gathered spalls of rock in a heap which delicately now, one by one, he plopped in the water.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

The surface of the earth had become distorted black glass, humped upward into spalls and twists which could not properly be called hills and twisted downward into deep cracks and folds which could not properly be called valleys.

The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991