Splinters

Examples

• He wanted a more homogeneous material than thread, and he began to try carbonizing everything he could lay his hands on, straw, paper, cardboard, splinters of wood. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Splinters from the timber would have made havoc among the men behind. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You did right to hold fast to each other, I said: as if the monster- splinters were living things, and could hear me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Then he stared at the pile of little pieces that lay before him like a bundle of splinters. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• See if you can knock a few of those boats to splinters. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He took out a number of small steel splinters from my thighs with delicate and refined distaste. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• His hair was fair almost to whiteness, sharp like splinters of light, his face was keen and ruddy, his body seemed full of northern energy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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