To Pick Up Broken Glass--Even the smallest pieces of broken glass can be easily picked up by using a bit of wet absorbent cotton, which can afterward be destroyed by burning.
A broken glass-bangle stands for a Hindu widow all India over; because, when her husband dies, a woman's bracelets are broken on her wrists.
An instant later he realised the cruel hoax that had been played on him, for extending over a distance of many yards in every direction was a sort of pavement of broken glass, pointed and keen-edged as a forest of razors.
The Chinaman instantly caught sight of the movement, and commenced to run toward the prisoner, coming to a sudden standstill as he encountered the outer edge of the carpet of broken glass.
Along it for some distance ran the high wall which bounded Elmhurst, and I saw that the wall had been further fortified by ugly pieces of broken glass set in cement along its top.
And then, from the direction of the house, came the crash of broken glass.
Some vines had started up it here and there, but, for the most part, it loomed grey and bleak, crowned along its whole length by that threatening line of broken glass.
He heard the foam fall with the clash of broken glass, was stung in the face by a cupful, and sniffing luxuriously, felt his way to the smoking-room by the wheel.
In the packet was the half of a broken glass bangle, one flower of the blood red dhak, a pinch of bhusa or cattle-food, and eleven cardamoms.
A broken glass-bangle stands for a Hindu widow all India over; because, when her husband dies a woman's bracelets are broken on her wrists.
Martial's itinerant hawker from the Transtevere, who bartered his sulphur matches for broken glass, we may perhaps think of as a Jew (Book 1.
Among their Sentences there is a goodly one relating to the ingenious piece of work just mentioned: If broken glass be restored again, how much more may Man be restored again after his Dissolution in the Grave?
The population dealt in bones, in rags, in broken glass, in old wheels, in birds, and dogs.
He was standing by the grave in the Wolfsgrube, where the "eater of broken glass" had just been buried.
Can you tell me something," I asked, "about the eater of broken glass?
He 's already yonder in torment, for he 's the eater of broken glass!
In the first place, do you imagine that even if Giovanni were to spend a whole week in this room, he would think of looking for the box amongst the broken glass?
If Pasquale appeared and saw a heap of broken glasson the floor, he would surely suspect something.
Without a word Zorzi smashed the calix off the iron into an old earthen jar already half full of broken glass.
It is buried in that big jar, in some three feet of broken glass.
Indeed, one would have thought his own instinct might have told him that broken glass would be a mistake in a bird's nest.
But what gave Tom more concern than anything else was the sight of Eradicate lying in the midst of broken glass on the floor.
His hands are cut by broken glass, but the hurts are only superficial.
Suddenly there was more commotion than usual, followed by the sound of broken glass.
Splinters, broken glass, tiles, clods of earth and leaves flew in all directions, while a pungent cloud of smoke enveloped everything.
The air was filled with the crash of exploding shells and the clatter of broken glass, to the accompaniment of the distant booming of the hostile guns.
Kenneth led the way along a dark, deserted alley, till he came to a wall on the top of which was a formidable array of broken glass.
This took some time, and the results disappointed him, with the exception of a cupboard under the stairs where he discovered a housemaid's dustpan full of pieces of broken glass.
That it had been broken since the letting of the house was clear, since I found a dustpan full of broken glass, which would not have been left so by the landlord's servants, or by the charwoman who cleaned up after their departure.
Then he flashed the light of the little torch on the window sill, and took from it a splinter of broken glass.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "broken glass" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
