You can't just start chipping away.

Well, little pieces of you get chipped away..

I don't mean no chipping neither.

I think he was chipping away at it with the hatchet.

Shackled to that chain gang, chipping away at rocks with that pathetic baby pickaxe?

Toby gets the ax and a precise, fast blow chips bottom of a bottle... and ably replaces the broken lens.

Now every 100 years she kidnaps a master of stone carving, forces him to work, to chip away at Alatyr piece by piece and carve all sorts of trinkets, to make them come alive.

I look at your pictures now and I don't just see an old house, chipped paint, empty swings.

Yeah, well, uh, the paint was all chipped off... and I kind of remember that, uh- that they liked sleeping' in this thing... when they weren't peeing' and poopin' all over the place.

The hair that had once been set in elaborate curls now hung lank and unkempt around her face. The scarlet paint on her two-inch talons was chipped and there were a couple of false jewels missing from her winged glasses.

On the table in the middle of the room was a kind of a lovely crockery basket that had apples and oranges and peaches and grapes piled up in it, which was much redder and yellower and prettier than real ones is, but they warn't real because you could see where pieces had got chipped off and showed the white chalk, or whatever it was, underneath.