Shard had sent him to Gary, while Gary, five thousand miles away, was wreaking upon the boy all the hatred inspired by the haters of his family far back in the Southern mountains.
He remembered thatShard had mentioned an intention to write Gary by mail.
And offal, shard and putrid dung, Is by affluent daughters born.
To sleep in dank Subjection's shard 'Mid hanuts of purple sins and shales A Thirst gyre!
And when it came to giving Max the actual proof, he got up and unlocked a drawer, and handed out of it the shard and the four films for him to look at.
He had drawn out of his pocket a small shard and was toying with it as he spoke.
And then with the leisurely air of a collector of curios he took up again the four films and the shard bearing the faint trace of figures, and before the astonished eyes of the Superintendent put them into his breast-pocket.
Then, as he examined them, he saw that the shard and the four films had been changed.
Suddenly they saw ahead the black hole of a great pipe, a hollow shard of steel.
And, faster and faster still, they crashed into the shard of steel.
Then with that great force behind them, tortured, maddened, desperate, the waters crashed through the shard of steel, to serve the will of Man.
One ray of hope Shard had; the flags on the cutter fluttered.
At first Shard made the oxen wear rough iron bits, another of his mistakes, and strong bits too.
And towards the end of that week Shard went to his chart-room and laid a new course for his ship a little to the East and towards cultivation.
Shard who had already surrounded his ship with sharpened stakes ordered all his men on board, the young trumpeter who prided himself on having picked up the ways of the land, sounded "Prepare to receive cavalry".
Supposing the camels go twelve hours a day at seven knots they would do eighty-four knots a day, while Shard doing three knots from ten to four, and four knots the rest of the time, was doing ninety and actually gaining.
Shard estimated afterwards that he got thirty Arabs by that broadside alone and as many horses.
And then Shard saw a branch that he had not marked on the chart, it would just catch the top of the mainmast.
But Shard alone on the quarter-deck paced to and fro pondering, brooding and wondering.
The thought that troubled Shard was: what would the Arabs do?
And the boatswain came again and took off his cap and asked Captain Shard to be so kind as to tell them about his new course.
Discipline is essential to those that have the right to fly the skull-and-cross-bones, andShard was the man to enforce it.
And at last they sighted their topsails right ahead, and still Shard went on.
And they lit a huge fire for the first time, burning abundant scrub, they thinking that Arabs daren't return, Shardknowing that concealment was now useless.
Shard at once ordered all his men to the ship except ten whom he left at the tree, they had some way to go and the Arabs had been moving some ten minutes before they got there.
Then night came down and hid the silver spires, and Shard slipped on through the gathering darkness until by midnight the piratic ship lay under the seaward battlements.
And some of those present thoughtfully stroked their necks while Captain Shard unfolded to them his plan.
All the next night Shard dodged about the sea, but the two ships separated and one kept him in sight, and the next morning it was alone with Shard on the sea, and his archipelago was just in sight, the secret of his life.
More cutters than even Captain Shard suspected were already looking for her jolly black flag with its neat skull-and-crossbones in yellow.
And Shard saw he must fight, and a bad fight it was, and yet it suited Shard's purpose, for he had more merry men when the fight began than he needed for his island.
So they lived for years, the pirates mostly gambling and drinking below, Captain Shard trying to please the Queen of the South, and she never wholly forgetting Bombasharna.
Therefore Captain Shard decided that the time had come to tell his men the secret.
And they got it over before any other ship came up; andShard put all adverse evidence out of the way, and came that night to the islands near the Sargasso Sea.
Remnants of shard and pottery, structure of houses, decorations and woven cloths and skins found wrapped as cerements round the dead all prove that these men were a sedentary and for that age civilized people.
You find bits of pottery and shard in the debris piles; and the day we went out, five minutes' scratching over of one cliff floor unearthed bits of wampum shell that from the perforations had evidently been used as a necklace.
But vain was the virtue of Skofnung When he vanquished the sharpness of Whitting; And a shard have I shorn, to my sorrow, From the shearer of ringleted mail.
A shard was broken out of Skofnung, and fire flew out of Thorveig's gift.
And in the midst of that northern-looking bight was a dark place which seemed to Walter like a downright shard in the cliff.
For he knew full well that the carle had lied to him, and that he might as well have said aye as no, and told him, that it verily was by that same shard that he had stridden over a dead man.
Thereupon Ahithophel had the Name of God inscribed upon the shard, and the shard thrown into the abyss.
When David was digging the foundations of the Temple, a shard was found at a depth of fifteen hundred cubits.
David was about to lift it, when the shard exclaimed: "Thou canst not do it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
