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Example sentences for "fragment"

Lexicographically close words:
fragen; fragile; fragilitas; fragility; fragmens; fragmental; fragmentary; fragmentation; fragmented; fragments
  1. A fragment apparently of some Closterium, the only one which I have met with in the collection, accompanies one of the specimens.

  2. With the exception of a badly preserved fragment this poem is lost.

  3. The precious fragment consists of 69 alliterating verses, which are preserved in a Kassel manuscript of the 8th or 9th century.

  4. His best known production is the fragment called Spring (1749), in which fine passages of personal feeling are interwoven with detailed descriptions that are sometimes a little tedious.

  5. Arthur sat sound asleep, his hands behind his head, his legs hanging over the edge of the arch, and his back propped in the angle formed by the junction of the window and the fragment of the old roof.

  6. The fact was, that he was anxious to recover the fragment of Snarleyyow which his mother had so contemptuously thrown out of the casement.

  7. I sometimes think I could fancy even a pumpkin pie, though there is not a fragment of the rock of Plymouth in the granite of my frame.

  8. A fragment only survives of the record of Zu'l-hijja 935 AH.

  9. Fragment d'un poeme inconnu de Babour, and have observed that Babur himself shews his title to be Mubin, in the lines of his colophon (p.

  10. Leyden's translation ends; one other fragment which he translated will be found under the year 925 AH.

  11. Under a heading "Humayun Padshah" is a fragment about (his?

  12. When the above comment on their resemblance was made, we were less assured than now as to the genesis of the Fragment (Index s.

  13. Their master nodded a slow, grave salutation to the group, produced a plug of tobacco, gnawed a fragment from it, and restored it to his pocket.

  14. Modeste is a demon; she sees my difficulty and she laughs at it; she has just spoken to me of a fragment of a letter of Madame de Chaulieu, which I had the folly to give her; if she shows it I can never make my peace with Eleonore.

  15. Justin grunted and again pointed, this time to a fragment of bark twisted up among the pendulous strings.

  16. Menotah turned to escape, but in doing so stepped upon a fragment of Lamont's broken glass.

  17. When they came in families they would bring a fragment of a new gens with them; but they would remain aliens unless the new gens was admitted into a tribe.

  18. It is a conclusion of deep importance in ethnology that the experience of mankind in savagery was longer in duration than all their subsequent experience, and that the period of civilization covers but a fragment of the life of the race.

  19. The time which has passed away since civilization began is but a fragment of the past duration of man's existence; and but a fragment of the ages yet to come.

  20. At the same time it indicates an anterior condition among the remote ancestors of the Chinese, of which this fragment preserves a knowledge, precisely analogous to that reflected by the Hawaiian.

  21. Stephanus of Byzantium has preserved a fragment of Dikaearchus, in which an explanation of the origin of the gens, phratry and tribe is suggested.

  22. Yet awful as is this Massachusetts tragedy, it is but a little fragment of the sternest struggle of the modern world.

  23. A fragment of shell had struck him on his backbone, and he was carried back wounded and bleeding.

  24. Some with their under jaw torn off, and hanging by a fragment of skin to their cheeks, with their tongues lolling from their mouth, and they trying to talk.

  25. I did not fall back, but continued to load and shoot, until a fragment of a shell struck me on the arm, and then a minnie ball passed through the same paralyzing my arm, and wounded and disabled me.

  26. I have dealt with a portion of this verse in conjunction with the fragment of another in this chapter.

  27. The want of precise correspondence between our text and the prophetic passage has led some to suppose that we have here the earliest recorded fragment of a Christian hymn.

  28. Because, for another thing, after all, these desires are each but a fragment of one's whole nature, and when one is satisfied another is baying to be fed.

  29. Now the words which I have selected as my text are but a fragment of a closely concatenated whole, but I may deal with them separately at this time.

  30. Suddenly I came upon the fragment of a bust.

  31. It was a fragment of no great importance, but it was Greek, and perhaps because I was surfeited with Chinese beauty it affected me strangely.

  32. The bearers walk more slowly, but after the long day they have lost none of their spirit, and they chatter gaily; they laugh, and one of them breaks into a fragment of tuneless song.

  33. You cannot tell why there should be a gateway in that deserted spot, far from a village, but a fragment of massive wall suggests the ruin of fortifications against the foes of a forgotten dynasty.

  34. What magnificence did that stained fragment of marble call up and what fabulous adventures!

  35. His lips muttered a fragment of the prayer for the dead; he crossed himself, and Derby noticed that the carabinieri did the same.

  36. Seeming scarcely to touch her feet to the ground, the dancer was a puff of the foam itself, a living fragment of green and white spray.

  37. ZENO The only remaining fragment of the building when the mediƦval German emperors stopt on their way to Rome.

  38. Now I do not think that there is any other rock in all the world, from which the places and monuments of so complex and deep a fragment of the history of its ages can be visible, as from this piece of crag, with its blue and prickly weeds.

  39. The only remaining fragment of the building where the mediƦval German emperors stopt on their way to Rome).

  40. He had a glass globe on the table, and from time to time he went on feeding with scraps of mussel the beautiful specimens of actinia; attached to a fragment of rock.

  41. His drawing is no longer a sketch, but a finished fragment in which no detail is left out, it is the flesh itself; and Michelangelo needed nothing more than this for his modelling.

  42. Vasari says that there was not a sketch, not the roughest note, or any sort of fragment of his which he had not devoutly drawn.

  43. The insolubility of a fragment of the mineral in a bead of microcosmic salt, is also a very good test; the fragment, on prolonged heating, does not lose its angular form.

  44. The residue is ignited over the blowpipe, a fragment of ammonic carbonate being added towards the end, when fumes of sulphuric acid cease to be evolved.

  45. We have thus been forced to perceive in every fixed aberration from the normal sexual life a fragment of inhibited development and infantilism.

  46. Fleming, too, has published a fragment of a Latin treatise by St. Aileran on the "Mystical Interpretation of the Ancestry of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  47. His poem on the Migrations of Milesius from Scythia to Spain is complete; but we possess only a fragment of another equally interesting one on the Death of the Ultonian Heroes of the Red Branch.

  48. This fragment is now only six inches long.

  49. Todd, what seems to be a fragment of an ancient Latin hymn in praise of St. Brigid.

  50. This fragment was found in the Irish monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland.

  51. The "Fragment of his Life," in the Salamanca MS.

  52. Colgan, Keating, and Sir James Ware all speak of the Psalter of Caiseal as extant in their own time; but it has since unhappily disappeared, although a very considerable fragment is contained in a MS.

  53. This fragment was once in the Franciscan Convent of Donegal; afterwards, it was in Colgan's possession, and has now fitly returned to the representatives of the original owners.

  54. We may infer from the fragment referred to in the Annals of Ulster that the saint was an accomplished scholar and writer.

  55. This fragment shows, too, that a century after the death of the holy founder scriptural studies of the most profound character were still cultivated with eagerness and success in the great school of Clonard.

  56. The contents of the fragment are of a very varied character, partly biblical, partly historical, partly old romantic tales.

  57. Is not our perishable happiness here below an earnest of some other more perfect happiness, as the earth, a mere fragment of the universe, testifies to the universe?

  58. This fragment of Lambert's investigations, which I remember from among his essays, will throw a light on the method on which he worked.

  59. Life so dilated in this fragment of life that Don Juan shrank back; he walked up and down the room, he dared not meet that gaze, but he saw nothing else.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fragment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
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