Or was he merely piecing together the whole story from such fragments as he knew?

SEE Concert piano pieces the whole world plays.

She was piecing a quilt.

I amused myself by piecing out all the events liable to happen in the condition your society is now in.

" Julia then began to piece together as well as she could the torn fragments.

A man of much worldly experience, in spite of his simple, ingenuous nature, the little man began carefully piecing together parts of the puzzle.

In the fourteenth century the Sultan Abou Hassan tried to piece together the scattered bits of the Almohad empire.

You have likewise taken to pieces our Dress, and represented to us the Extravagancies we are often guilty of in that Particular.

I will continue it as I have opportunity; and that so dexterously, that, if I break off twenty times, thou shalt not discern where I piece my thread.

There was nothing very compromising in the note, but Mr. Van Torp certainly did not know that his butler regularly offered first and second prizes in the servants' hall, every Saturday night, for the 'best-put-together letters' of the weekto those of his satellites, in other words, who had been most successful in piecing together scraps from the master's wastepaper basket.

For your part, you will not want a place, as some others do, to piece up their broken fortunes.

His judgment yet his memory did excel; 660 Which pieced his wondrous evidence so well, And suited to the temper of the times, Then groaning under Jebusitic crimes.

The Spaniards, on the other hand, had surprised and cut to pieces the detachment under Colonel Palmer.

They sat and talked for an hoursat and talked and laughed and pieced out between them the wonderful details of that very lively day in Morovenia.

There are also fragmentary sayings repeated in the Gospel in a way that would be natural in a later editor piecing together different documents and finding the same saying in each, but unnatural in an eye- and ear-witness drawing upon his own recollections.

He pieced together his broken empire, asserted his authority in Fez and Marrakech, and fought the rebellious tribes of the west.

" 3 For the rest, since good wine needs no bush, and an inferior beverage is not likely to be bettered by arboreal adornment, I elect to piece out my exordium (however lamely) with "The Printer's Preface."

But the undoubted results of modern science ... shatter to pieces the whole fabric.

And yet Thorndyke had, in some incomprehensible manner, contrived to piece together facts that I had probably not even observed, and that so completely that he had already, in these few days, narrowed down the field of inquiry to quite a small area.

It was for these reasons, then, that he summarily dismissed these officials and broke to pieces their fasces.

1.NEW 52 FOOT KRUPP GUN AND A GERMAN FIELD PIECE FIGURED ON THE SAME SCALE.

All between the ore dumps and solitary small cabins, pieced out with tin cans and packing cases, run footpaths drawing down to the Silver Dollar saloon.

His mere appearance, as, for instance, in Debreczin, January, 1849, when the second danger seemed to overwhelm the country, roused the frightened people of the Thesis, who crowded under the national standard and shattered to pieces the Austrian forces.

From Jerusalem he went to Gaza, where, having met with a more obstinate resistance than he expected, he cut to pieces the whole garrison, consisting of ten thousand men.

He seized his spear, through her body he ran it, Her inward parts he hewed, cut to pieces her heart.