Fragments

Examples

• The two or three lines which follow contain fragments of words only, mingled with blots and scratches of the pen. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was very well they did--to judge from the fragments of conversation which Margaret overheard. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It had been carried out and had been dashed savagely against the garden wall, under which its splintered fragments were discovered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Some were in small fragments, the others merely torn in half. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Even the fragments of his words when 'repeated at second-hand' (Symp. Plato. The Republic.
• Some eddying fragments I saw in the sea, as if a mere cask had been broken, in running to the spot where they were hauling in. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He was like a flask that is smashed to atoms, he seemed to himself that he was all fragments, smashed to bits. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As Sissy said it, her eyes were attracted by another of those rotten fragments of fence upon the ground. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The world began again after a deluge and was reconstructed out of the fragments of itself. Plato. The Republic.
• There may be, there probably are, thousands of deposits still untouched containing countless fragments and vestiges of man and his progenitors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Look among those fragments with care, Jacques. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It yields quantities of asphaltum; fragments of it lie all about its banks; this stuff gives the place something of an unpleasant smell. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Several fragments of loose stone formed a kind of breast-work, which sheltered their position from the observation of those below. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• One may imagine her suffering on overhearing fragments of this sort of conversation. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Upon these fragile Piltdown fragments alone more than a hundred books, pamphlets, and papers have been written. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They have brought cannon balls, broken ramrods, fragments of shell--iron enough to freight a sloop. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They look like fragments of heaven. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• On this, the disconnected words, and fragments of sentences, which had dropped from Mr. Candy in his delirium, appeared as follows: . Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It contains fragments of Miocene mastodon and rhinoceros teeth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was but a short time before the last vestige of its body, root and limb had disappeared, the fragments taken as trophies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He later enclosed some fragments of whinstone in a black-lead crucible and subjected it to intense heat in the reverberating furnace of an iron foundry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• She had taken a crayon from the tutor's desk, and was drawing little leaves, fragments of pillars, broken crosses, on the margin of the book. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Read a few pages of the 'Fragments de l'Amazone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We both went flat and with the flash and bump of the burst and the smell heard the singing off of the fragments and the rattle of falling brick. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Bit by bit other fragments of this skull were hunted out from the quarry heaps until most of it could be pieced together. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was a bust of Napoleon, like the one which we had seen that morning, and it had been broken into similar fragments. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Fragments of this work have been preserved, exquisite painted tiles, and also painted glass, setting forth the story of Psyche, which Palissy prepared for the chateau. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is let off in sets of chambers now, and in those shrunken fragments of its greatness, lawyers lie like maggots in nuts. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We gather up the fragments of His discourses, but neither do they represent Him as He truly was. Plato. The Republic.
• Among the oyster-shells were mixed many fragments of ancient, broken crockery ware. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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