I found a spot where the palisade was broken; the splintered wood was fresh and clean; it was I who had broken the palisade last night.
Here the flat ledges of sandstone retain the moisture, and give rise to none of those impetuous torrents which sweep it off the inclined beds of gneiss, or splintered quartz.
The descent was to a broad, open valley, into which the flank of Nango dipped in tremendous precipices, which reared their heads in splintered snowy peaks.
It lay scattered, in splintered shards, upon the grass.
It had been carried out and had been dashed savagely against the garden wall, under which its splintered fragments were discovered.
The next instant there was muffled, thunderous report, and rocks, rails and splintered wood flew in every direction, as if from the mouth of Vesuvius.
There he reared and struck at the wood with his great front hoofs; the boards splintered and shivered under the blows.
She threw the mirror crashing on the floor; it splintered in a thousand pieces.
In the west arose the shattered peak of Monroe--a mass of splintered granite, conspicuous at every point for its irreclaimable deformity.
There was a bursting report, and a bullet splintered the panel of the door, flattened itself against the fireplace, and fell tinkling into the grate.
An instant later there was a scream of anger and on a line where Ford would have been, had he knelt to shove the envelope under the door, three bullets splintered through the panel.
As the heavy wheels lumbered over the rough ground, grating the splintered bones, and bruising and opening afresh the inflamed wounds, shrieks of torture were extorted from the victims.
The frantic war-horse with iron hoof tramples upon the mangled face, the throbbing and inflamed wounds the splintered bones, and heeds not the shriek of torture.
So preternaturally thin and flexible was Elfride at this moment, that she appeared to bend under the light blows of the rain-shafts, as they struck into her sides and bosom, and splintered into spray on her face.
I didn't know it was Billiard and Toady then, because the bullet splintered the lamp chimney and I couldn't see real well.
The men stood back and saw the smoke and flames arise out of the pile of splintered timbers.
The dead and wounded were being borne from the two wrecked Pullmans, but the Padre seemed led by some instinct to go on to where the engine was buried in the torn and splintered freight cars of the other train.
The ice was broken into thousands of confused shapes, but none, Hans thought, like the ordinary forms of splintered ice.
Then, to the accompaniment of an awful roar, a dark and heavy mass hurled itself through the gap, and the crunch of broken beam and splintered wood told where it had disappeared into the room below.
Explanation was unnecessary, for the field was still littered with splintered wood and broken glass, though much of it had been cleared away.
It seemed to provide fine splintered timber as kindling for fiercer flames which jumped the gap supposed to check them.
The big building had been literally poured out into the street in a stream of splintered wood.
More probably he had meant the sting that his words conveyed, for, owing to a delicate knee-cap that had once been splintered by a bullet and still at times gave him trouble, Major Tudor was a non-dancer.
The bullet splintered the bark on the tree and the pieces flew high in the air.
Although three times as far away as Stanley had been when he gave his exhibition of skill, the little knot on the tree leaped into the air, and as it fell, the second bullet caught it in midair and splintered it into little pieces.
Of the launch nothing remained but a few, broken, splintered planks drifted up against the trees.
The two were standing by a heap of broken splintered planks that had once been their extra skiff.
Spars were shattered; sails ripped; masts splintered in the hail of iron.
And broken glass with splintered fastenings was all that remained of the once perfect glazing.
Their eyes were reddened with sulphurous fumes and their clothes torn with splintered planking.
Edwin heard a crash ofsplintered glass; he saw the cab on its side and the sleepy horse with its legs in the air.
Small chance to overhaul the prodigy on that ribbed and splintered hill; Awguan held the sidelong trail at the red pony's heels.
Right in the centre of the glass was a great white star, which radiated out in all directions in a series of splintered cracks.
Arthur Robinson, conscious of a sickly feeling down his spine, rose to his feet and approached the splintered window.
