Splinters of coffins, rusty iron crosses and the petals of tin flowers were trampled into the mud, amidst the universal barbed wire.
And the mildest ways they have of murdering them is by sticking them through the body with sharp splinters of bamboo, strangling them with their thumbs, or burying them alive and stamping them to death while under the sod.
He was seated on a stool, and before him lay several knives, made of wood, bone, and splinters of bamboo, with which he performed his office of dissecting dead bodies.
They shake down avalanches of splinters from sky-line pinnacles and raise up sudden floods like battle fronts in the cañons against towns, trees, and boulders.
Yet I have not found it on the polished glacier slips, but where the country rock cleaves and splinters in the high windy headlands that the wild sheep frequents, hordes and hordes of the white bells swing over matted, mossy foliage.
The first improvement in the torch was made when slivers or splinters of resinous or oily wood were tied together and burned.
Torches were then made of rope coated with resin or fat, or of sticks or splinters smeared with grease; here the stick resembled the wick of the candle as we know it to-day, and the coating of fat corresponded to the tallow or paraffin.
He took one of the sulphur-tipped splinters which he was accustomed to use with his tinder-box, and dipped it into sulphuric acid, and then applied it to a mixture of chlorate of potash and sugar.
Splinters flew from the logs as bullets thudded into them.
A score of revolver slugs, aimed at the sound of his voice, sent showers of splinters flying from the green-shuttered doors.
I could not, at first, even summon up sufficient strength to tear and fit together the small splinters of wood, my fingers absolutely refusing their office, and my knees knocking violently against each other.
Small splinters of wood were made to answer our purpose, and it was agreed that I should be the holder.
But the feeling did not last; and, at length, with a convulsive shudder and closed eyes, I held out the two remaining splinters towards him.
Presently, however, a shell burst a few yards above the trench, scattering splinters upon its occupants; and a few minutes later another shell fell plump on the parapet at the northern end, killing two men and wounding several.
Crouching at the bottom of the muddy trench, the Wahehe suffered no hurt except bruises and abrasions from splinters of wood and metal; and Tom resolved to have the breaches in the barricade repaired during the night.
By the end of the day the natives had become indifferent to the bombardment, laughing and joking as they watched the smoke and the splinters which did them no harm.
With these they dug a hole several inches deep, put some splinters in, and started a stealthy blaze.
Splinters were contributed by the others, and after several failures a small flame was started.
The splinters were seen to fly over the British frigate like a cloud, some of them reaching as high as the mizzen top, while the cheers of her men abruptly ceased and the shrieks and groans of the wounded were heard.
A few minutes later she fired a second shot, which smashed into the starboard bulwarks of the Lawrence and sent a cloud of splinters flying.
Her rigging was in tatters and splinters and her hull had been pierced by more than a hundred shot, many of which struck between wind and water.
Perry's clothing was torn by splinters and two musket balls passed through his hat.
Thick as hail the bullets came rattling against the palisades and the upper portions of the house, some chipping off splinters from the tops of the timbers, others sticking in the wood, others penetrating through the interstices.
Those sharp splinters of the gap which fixed the tarpaulin might pierce it and make holes, by which the water would enter; while he would not even perceive it in the darkness.
This house was uninjured, though the galley was split up, and to starboard stood up in splinters like the stump of a tree struck by lightning.
He waited some time, standing in the middle of the big room, looking at some splinters of glass and china which had been left on the marble floor, forming on his tongue what he was going to say.
He crossed the room, and took the Sienese chalice between his hands, holding it gingerly for a moment as if it had been some unclean thing; then he dashed it on to the marble floor and it lay in splinters about his feet.
He sat down himself, and waited, looking at the splinters of glass on the floor.
Finally one lucky shot smashed the clock in the front engine close by the engineer's head, spraying glass and splinters all over him.
The flame of small wood-splinters being applied to the boiler, after a time vapour rose into the head, passed through the tube, was condensed by the cold of the water, and fell in a liquid fillet into the bottle.
A rod of unresisting copper carries away uninjured and unwarmed an atmospheric discharge competent to shiver to splinters a resisting oak.
He taught me to forge And the art of fusing, But what the craftsman Could not achieve The scholar did By skill and by daring-- Out of the splinters of a weapon Fashioned featly a sword.
Tell me, thou artful Armourer, Whose skill from the doughty splinters Nothung the sword shall fashion.
There is one sword That he could not shatter: Nothung's splinters Would baffle his strength, Could I but forge Those doughty fragments That all my skill Cannot weld anew.
Thy keen-edged glory I chopped to chaff; The splinters now I am melting.
He strikes it on the anvil, so that the splinters fly about.
Give them complete success, and you will be flung aside, as the splinters of a broken lance are tossed out of the tilt-yard.
On the other hand, two splinters of stone, inserted into a bone and a tyne of deer's horn, figured by Dr.
After having been knocked intosplinters the splinters were spread about by high explosives which reduced the stone base to fragments.
No one was in sight there, and an occasional German five-point-nine shell burst on the mixture of splinters and earth.
Showers of leaves and splintersdescended from shell-bursts and machine guns were always rattling.
On the deck, covered with splinters of wood and pieces of cast iron, the cold was intolerable.
Then I understood the flag, the splinters of wood, the pieces of cast iron, and the smell of burnt powder we had noticed in the cabin.
Unfortunately all the black splinters had been carried away by tourists.
Every spear of grass was singed from the top of the hill; the big rock on the summit showed marks of a collision; and several splinters of some black igneous material were lying strewed around.
The heat of the blazing splinters scorched his breast and made it red, but the robin did not stop until the fire was blazing brightly.
Then he brought some splinters and dry moss and laid them upon the coal and fanned it with his wings until the fire caught the wood and burned up strong and bright.
The Turks bombarded our lines, and hurled half a dozen shells into our trench, smashing down parapets, wrecking rifles and gear, splathering bullets and splinters everywhere, and yet miraculously missing everybody.
It's fine fun, but no one can guess where the splinters will fly to.
But Massie was kept busy for a week picking bomb splinters out of himself.
Possum--Aun' Izzie, I was bustin up dem splinters dat my daddy brung for you to cook wid en June come en set right under de ax.
A stable boy came in to get some oats out of an old chest, and let the lid fall down so awkwardly that it made splinters of wood fly upwards.
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