And the roof-poles of the wigwam Were as glittering rods of silver, And the roof of bark upon them As the shining shards of beetles.
Then he dashed the glass violently to the boards, crashing it to flying shards and spattering the rum all about.
Broken glass gritted under hammering bootheels, as the shards of lamp-chimney were ground fine.
He ducked for the floor of the cockpit just as the bubble windscreen detonated, spewing shards of plastic both outward and inward.
He avoided the deadly shards of wood, then seized onto a section of the mast that had blown in his direction.
Again he sat back and took time to gather up a few of the scattered shards and fragments.
The coarse-grained snow is strewn thickly with shards of bark that the trees have sloughed in their long hibernation, with shreds and tatters of their tempest-torn branches.
As if out of the cloud of sulphurous smoke, a shower of leaves flutter down, with a quicker patter of dry twigs and shards of bark, and among all these a brown clod drops lifeless and inert to mother earth.
Lo, yonder where I stood The shards of a glaive of battle that was once the best of the good: Take them and keep them surely.
Then clashed the meeting edges with Sigmund's latest stroke, And in shivering shards fell earthward that fear of worldly folk.
From the shape and from the remnants of pottery shards lying about, I suspect one of these hewn alcoves in the inner wall was the place for the family water jar.
On all sides lay bits and shards of masonry, half hidden in the waving grass, giving the impression that once many buildings rose there, perhaps a whole town.
Her dreams were fragmentary and colorful, exotic shards of a broken, unknown pattern, until they crystalized into a scene of horror and madness, etched against a background of cyclopean stones and pillars.
As he lies dying he tells Hiordis that she must take good care of their child, who is to carry on the Volsung tradition, and must guard well the shards of Odin's sword for him.
With a sword forged from the shards and named by him "the Wrath," Sigurd sets out on Greyfell, accompanied by Regin, to attack the dragon.
This Regin attempts to do and fails until Sigurd brings him the shards of Odin's mighty sword, his inheritance from his father Sigmund.
On the morrow the butler gropes alone, The graybeard in the desert hall, He seeks his Lord's burnt skeleton, He seeks in the dismal ruin's fall The shards of the Luck of Edenhall.
Break not till they are dead, All, all my Seven Sons; then burst asunder, And let this tortured and tormented soul Leap and rush out like water through the shards Of earthen vessels broken at a well.
Thus did that poor soul wander in want and cheerless discomfort Bleeding, barefooted, over the shards and thorns of existence.
Wilt thou get to thy mastery And knit these shards together that once in the Branstock stood?
Here were the mazes of the Pinacate, raw shards of volcanoes and wilderness of lava flows down by the Gulf sandhills; country so fire-scarred and forbidding that even the Indian nomads give it wide berth.
The whole ground about was littered with the shards of sacrificial pottery and scraps of basketry.
Regnar cleared away the ice-chips, hurling the larger shards to an obscure corner, and carrying the smaller ones in his reversed fur cap.
You shall find him, spent and grim; In the prisons, where we pen These unsightly shardsof men.
Over the trampled shards of mine own clay, That smoulder still, and burn, Lo, I return!
Despite knowing that everything moved ineluctably forward with its tattered past being dragged behind, it was only natural to have moments of being mesmerized by those shards and fixated with fixing the unfixable.
If there were gentle and sublime moments in the distant past, tiny shards of some shiny splendor in the rubble, to him it would almost seem impossible that they would not be eventually restored somehow.
Then Janet Fisher showered shardsof ice with a light laugh.
He stripped a fewshards of rubber away, picked at something in the bent metal rim, and put whatever he found in his pocket.
The clumsy movement loosened a handful of shards which went clattering down; the great stone slid, caught on the parapet, and hung once more in uncertain oscillation.
After this filter had been made there was frequently scattered a bushel or more of small shards above.
This type of pottery is practically duplicated in shards recovered by Doctor Hrdlička from what is now Eskimo territory in the Yukon Valley near the Russian Mission.
Some of the shards have deeply incised punctations irregularly encircling the outer surface of the vessel just below the rim extension.
