Shreds of moss, half floating and half moored, reminded him to close the reservoir, and he had just moved the chains when La Vigne startled him by speaking at his ear.
Every massive joist half growing from dimness overhead was hung with ghostly shreds of cobweb; and on the grayish whiteness of the floor the children's naked soles cut out oblongs dotted with toe-marks.
Their nests are made of twigs, lined with shreds of grape vine bark or catkins; the nests are generally very shabbily made and so flat on the top that the eggs frequently roll off.
The nests are made interiorly with plant down, but the outside is generally grayish colored shreds and lichens.
They are made of plant down with shreds of weeds, bark and lichens worked into the outside portions, and are often lined with soft feathers.
Their nests are made of grasses and shreds of bark, lined with hair and finer grasses, and the eggs are white, specked, spotted and blotched with shades of brown and neutral tints; size .
Their nests are made of weeds, shreds of bark, grasses, etc.
Nest composed chiefly of dry beech leaves and strips of cedar bark, lined with shreds of bark and fine grass; situated on the ground among a bunch of weeds in the woods.
They nest in coniferous trees in swampy places, making their nests of bark shreds and rootlets and placing them in horizontal forks at elevations of from five to thirty feet from the ground.
The nests are made of rootlets, shreds of bark, pine needles, etc.
By a movement of the legs, those soiled shreds are cast aside.
Then the lastshreds of masculine independence asserted themselves.
A puff of hot, dry wind shook the velvet curtains of night, tossed and split them into shreds of black and crimson, suddenly revealing a wall of burnished brass behind.
But if you smile or utter a single word, the devil will tear you to shreds and tatters on the spot.
The steep wooded hills to the left, the red-brown shoulder of the Scout in front, were still wrapt in torn and floating shreds of mist.
But it wrung his heart to see her agitation, her pale face, the handkerchief she was twisting to shreds in her restless hands.
Thus, Colonel Tod [341] describes the trees in a sacred grove in Rajputana as decorated with shreds of various coloured cloth, "offerings of the traveller to the forest divinity for protection against evil spirits.
Arrange the fuel into logs; into small fuel, assorted as described above, and into shreds and fibres.
The shreds that are intended to touch the live spark should be reduced to the finest fibre; the outside of the nest may be of coarser, but still of somewhat delicate material.
It is an effort to save something--a few shreds and patches and ravelings--from the wreck.
A piece of cloth given to one is torn into shreds and distributed, and no one individual becomes richer than another.
It is cut while young, the stiff parallel veins removed, then slit into shreds by whipping it, and immersed in boiling water, and finally bleached in the sun.
He would--even at this moment of complete ruin--have given the lastshreds of his worldly possessions to be able to steady the febrile movements of his hand.
She gathered up what shreds of valor she possessed and ran blindly in the direction whence came the welcome voice.
That of China and India rests, with a few exceptions, on traditions or on broken crockery tablets and confused shreds of ruins.
A mass of shreds in the tureen or soup-plate looks slovenly and disgusting, and should never be seen at the table; also, they absorb too much of the liquid.
Before it goes into the tureen, see that there are no shreds of meat or bits of bone left in the soup.
When you put it into the tureen to go to table, be sure to leave in the pot all the shreds of meat and bits of bone.
Pour it off clear from the shreds of meat at the bottom.
Having cleared the soup from shreds and bits of bone left at the bottom of the pot, stir in a thickening made of indian meal mixed to a paste with a little fresh lard, or venison gravy.
When it is finished strain the soup through a sieve, divesting it of the thin shreds of meat and bits of bone.
Have ready a nice fresh white cabbage, that has been washed, drained, and cut, or shaved, into small shreds with a cabbage cutter.
It is then time to strain out the shreds of meat and bone, return the soup to the pot, and add the vegetables.
Place the pot over a moderate fire, and let it simmer slowly (skimming it well) for several hours, till the veal is all to rags and the flesh of the calves' feet has dropped in shreds from the bones.
The soup-meat should boil till all the flesh is loose on the bones, and the bits and shreds should not be served up.
Otherwise, you may boil with the chicken some sliced onion and sliced turnip, with a grated parsnip and a sliced potato, straining out the vegetables with the shredsof fowl.
When all is quite done and thoroughly boiled, cover the bottom of a tureen with small squares of bread or toast, and dip or pour the soup into it, leaving all the bones and shreds of meat in the pot.
Then pour it off, or strain it into the tureen, omitting all the sediment, and bones, and shredsof meat.
In doing so, carefully avoid the shreds of meat and bone.
When the soup is well boiled, and the shreds all strained away, have ready (cooked by themselves in another pot) some ears of sweet corn, young and tender.
I want to see if this spot is caused by the application of a certain rubber composition, and if there are shreds of blue wool mixed with it.
There are shreds of blue wool in this composition on the floor--so you see he wore a blue woolen garment--probably a coat or pair of trousers.
Her dress was torn to shreds by the jagged rocks and there was blood upon the delicate hands that she held out in pleading to the only living thing she saw-the red man.
He saw the shreds of the blankets; he saw the knife; finally he caught a glimpse of the chain that was fastened to the sapling.
The modest blue violets appear in such profuse abundance that they seem like shreds of the sky wafted by the spring breezes over the land and drifted into every swale and ravine.
But just then a spark shot out from the fire and lighted on his hand, which hurt him so that he jumped up suddenly, spilling into the fire all the shreds of meat and fat which he had so carefully gathered.
Their nest on the ground, beside some rock or stump, is made of shreds of vines and grass.
Is made of twigs loosely put together, and lined with grass, or shreds of grape vine bark.
They build their nests in the thickest of such places a few feet from the ground, made up of shreds of vines, leaves and twigs, lined with grass.
This is made of grasses and shreds of vines, and lined with finer grasses and hair.
They nest either on or near the ground, building it of shreds of vines, leaves and grasses.
Their nest is a neat, compact, cup-shaped structure, made of shreds of vines and fine roots, and lined with fine grass.
Their nests are placed in thickets or thorny bushes, and are made of shreds of vines, grasses and plant down.
Is usually placed in the forks of small shrubs near the ground, seldom above six feet from it, and made of plant down, with shreds of weeds, bark and lichens worked into the outside portion, and lined with a few soft feathers.
They are made of plant down and shreds of bark and lichens, breeding high up on the mountains.
But it existed, and would assume recognizable shape when an active imagination had fitted some shreds of proof to that which was yet without form and void.
With an oath, he threw the telltale weapon back among the undergrowth, and, summoning the last shreds of his shattered nerves to lend some degree of self-control, walked rapidly out into the open park.
I've secured shreds of the sacking out of which he made the pads to cover his feet; and an under gardener remembers seeing Mr. Hilton making off with an empty potato sack one day last week, and wondering why he wanted it.
The old bull that our travellers discovered had evidently been long engaged with his ferocious adversaries, for his limbs and flesh were torn in shreds in many places, and blood was streaming from his sides.
The poor buffalo was nearly spent, and it was clear that a few hours more would see him torn to shreds and his bones picked clean.
Take hold of the crown of the pine with the left hand; take a fork in the right hand and with it tear the pine into shredsuntil there is nothing left but the core, which throw away.
It was a sleep seething and teeming with a weird and distressful confusion of shreds and fag-ends of dreams--a sleep that was a chaos.
Michael missed his calf as he uprose, but tore the other leg of the trousers to shreds and received a kick that lifted him a yard above the deck in a half-somersault and landed him on his back on deck.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shreds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
