There, I saw something towering up among the spray: it looked like a fragment of a great ruin, and I touched Tonnison on the shoulder.

I have a specimen block, cut from a fallen trunk, which is hardly distinguishable from specimens cut from living trees, although the old trunk-fragment from which it was derived has lain in the damp forest more than 380 years, probably thrice as long.

But most vehemently, and with such emphasis as I possess, I beg you not to rummage among your rejected and broken fragments in the hope of recasting a withered thought to a present mood.

The first extract comes from his fragment On Life, which may have been written (but this is quite uncertain) towards 1815; the second from his fragment On a Future State, for which some similar date is suggested; the third from the notes to his drama of Hellas, written in 1821, later than Adonais.

He used to tear the letters and throw the fragments into a closet.

They learned that later, when the bank-clerks of Manchester broke the Prussian Guard into fragments at Contalmaison.

I have written these seemingly trifling fragments with a serious purpose.

Save where the rains have wash'd the gathered sand And bared the scanty fragments to our view, (As the dust sprinkled on a punctur'd hand Bids the faint tints resume their azure hue).

The parapets of the works, dried in the heats of summer and split in huge fragments by the shot, were crumbling into the ditches.

I cannot doubt that my readers will be interested in such fragments as the scope and design of my book will allow me to offer.

In return for my gulden, the beadle gave me a few immortelles from Sobieski's tomb, and some laurel leaves from Kosciuszko's; and remembering friends at home of refinedly ghoulish tastes, I determined to preserve those poor moldering fragments for them.

Yet the vast empire which Timour established, fell into fragments after his death, in 1405, and his descendants have sunk into oblivion; while the race of Othman and Bajazet still rule over a large empire in Europe and Asia, nearly commensurate with the eastern Roman empire, still called Rumi in the east.

The whole train went up and its load was scattered in fragments over an area of several hundred square yards, an extraordinary scene of wreckage of torn and twisted railway material and destroyed ammunition presenting itself to us when we got on the spot on November 7.

Do as I do, and may Arthur see and remember.' "Her fingers opened; the glass fell from her hand, and lay in broken fragments beside her plate.

A youngster was tearing up a piece of paper and scattering the fragments about on the gravel.

How long must we pursue a road in which promises are all fetishes in front of us; and all fragments behind us?

They never could come to a mutual understanding, and were forever unsettled, often destroying their own dwellings and hurling the fragments against the Corner-Stone of the Church, which always remained unshaken.

No reason can be alleged for the forging or purposely false ascription of a fragment like this, and it bears the stamp of good faith in that it asks indulgence for opponents instead of censure.

Representing the fruit of twenty years' labour, it was, like "Faust," written in fragments during the ripest period of his intellectual activity.

" In the five fragments above quoted there are also two at least which refer to girls.

In a short time, every flower was destroyed, and lay in its fragments before him.

The screen was lying in small fragments amongst the rubbish on the chapel floor, and at first I thought they were bits of rusty iron.

The mineral to be experimented on is placed in small fragments near the center of the platinum ribbon, and closely watched while the current is increased, till the melting-point of the substance is apparent.

The Thirteenth Infantry captured the enemy's colors waving over the fort, but, unfortunately, destroyed them, distributing the fragments among the men, because, as was asserted, 'It was a bad omen,' two or three men having been shot while assisting private Arthur Agnew, Company H, Thirteenth Infantry, the captor.

He beholds himself strewn in a thousand fragments throughout the world; and all his culture is nothing but assimilation of himself to them, until he can say with wise Ulysses, "I am a part of all that I have met.