In the rooms were still lying about broken toys, pictures, books, and bits of clothing.
I pacified them, and distributed the unsavoury bits of meat.
Some had been able to make a little fire out of bits of broken wheels, and to roast horse-flesh cut from horses which the shells had killed.
A large flat shallow basket held twenty or more metal plates; on each a piece of beef and some nicely browned potatoes, all smoking and frizzling from a few bits of live charcoal in a small earthen pan under each.
More than once I have chanced to hear bits of talk, when either Mabel or Lily was in his sitting-room, and didn't like the tone of it.
Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty," said Lord Henry, pulling the daisy to bits with his long, nervous fingers.
Having received the blanket, he paid the requisite number of bits of wood for it, and became abstracted again.
At the door of the tent a child of riper years amused itself by rolling about among the chips of wood, useless bits of deer-skin, and filth always strewn around a wigwam.
This being given him, the trader tells him that the price is six castors; the purchaser hands back six of his little bits of wood, and selects something else.
The ploughshare still turned up from time to time some rusty bits of metal, but it was hard to say what use they had ever served, and those who found them wondered and disputed.
If you caught her before ten in the morning you would find her with crescent-shaped bits of court-plaster beside her eyes, in front of her ears, and between her brows.
Yet the bits I leave out are the ones that show him as he is," she said, looking off into the grove of palms.
I will get ye the bits of things, my dear, and do ye rub this butter on your face.
They heard the sound of horses champing their bits in the distance, and a low murmur of voices.
His one and two line bits of comment and wisdom were models of pithiness, and few writers have equalled him in masterly skill in argument.
It was impossible to identify the remains almost seventy years after their interment, but with them were found bits of military trappings, so his tale may have been correct.
Both the articles were trumpery bits of souvenirs, but the old dame was inclined to think that the angels and saints had taken her in charge, and nothing could exceed her gratitude.
Irish atmosphere flings over the scene, shifting them ever at will, in misty sun or radiant shower; and how lovely are the too rare bits of woodland!
Jack Hillyard turned over in his hand the few bits of silver which he had taken from his little tin savings-bank.
A bigger boy, after having broken the panels of a fine gilt coach, we saw afterwards in the court-yard nailing together a few dirty bits of ragged elm boards, to make himself a wheel-barrow.
There are fine architraves, and some bits of roofing, but the greater part is open to the air.
I had my leg dressed and a few bits of sticking plaster put on various parts of my body.
Then in some spots, the ground spit forth masses of dirt, a soldier's helmet, a tattered rag of uniform, and bits of a human body.
Broken bitsof gun and fragments of cloth mixed with earth explained the fate of a German machine gunner who had emplaced his piece in the same manner.
It had taken me a whole week with my broken-down memory to piece together the odd bits of lines and verses that I still carried in my head; and another week to evolve Mr. Kipling's "If.
Bits of steel were imbedded in its trunk; but only a direct hit on the trunk will bring down a tree.
The designs are arranged in three friezes, of which the lower consists only of isolated bits of key-pattern.
The girl looked at him coldly, her eyes were like two bitsof ice.
But it will be dark," objected Mravucsan, "and there are some very bad bits of road between here and Glogova, and two or three precipices.
There was nothing worth speaking of, a few bits of furniture, old and well worn, and a few shabby cassocks.
You helped him to fill the caldron with rusty nails and bits of old iron.
He was reading bits out of the numbers to me, whilst I was rigging a miniature yacht to sail on the dam; and Mrs. Wood's husband was making a plan of something at another table, and occasionally giving me advice about my masts and sails.
Ootah told her of the bear encounter, and, with the joy of children, they placed bits of the meat in the pot and sat by, delightedly inhaling the odor as it cooked.
Over the light, and supported by a framework, was a large soapstone pot in which bits of walrus meat were simmering.
Generous-hearted, many of the others joined in and bits of blubber were soon offered the lonely Papik, as he sat, nursing his frozen members, in his house.
Into the lamp he placed the last meagre bits of remaining blubber.
Only the children, to whom parents gave the last bits of food, showed some animation.
Whipped by the terrific gale the snow cut their faces like bits of steel.
When wool is thus risen there is no waste, for it comes wholly off without any bits or locks.
Mildred rarely interrupted the girl's narratives; but little bits haunted her now and then, and lingered in her memory with tender persistence.
Pleasant bits in life's journey are in reality not unfrequently monotonous, though this fact may not be realised at the time.
Old bits of family history always have a fascination for me.
The women play with small bits of cane, about eight or nine inches long.
There were just a few traces of other buildings in the sheds and walls, and bits of carved stonework piled up in a rockery.
Wordsworth, as Carlyle pungently said, used to pay an annual visit to London in later life "to collect his littlebits of tribute.
There are a few little bits of old glass in the church, in the traceries of the windows, just enough to show that some one liked making pretty things, and that some one else cared enough to pay for them.
Dirty mats or bits of carpets cover the floor, racks are provided for the shoes of the worshippers, and if there is not a gallery a space is railed off for the women.
Dust and cobwebs of ancient date, droppings from candles and bits of candle wicks offend Western eyes in the sacristy and elsewhere.
Mirza is so good that one cannot be angry with him, but it was very annoying to hear him preach about "fate" and "destiny" while he was allowing his horse to grind my one pair of smoked spectacles into bits under his hoofs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
