The virtues of the dittany were famous as far back as Plutarch's time, and Gerarde speaks of its marvellous efficacy in drawing forth splinters of wood, &c., and in the healing of wounds, especially those "made with envenomed weapons, arrows shot out of guns, and such like.

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.

Just as he did so there was a blow, a splintering of wood.

The shock of their encounter was dreadful; their lances were shivered and sent up splinters in the air.

He saw the broken photograph, the glass splintered into a thousand pieces.

And no one was doing business as usual more composedly than a wee tot trudging along to school with a nasty scratch from a glass splinter on her chubby cheek.

Five men and one boy, the victims of the pirate's guns, lay dead on the deck, which was badly splintered with balls and shot.

He applied the ignited splinter to the edge of the hoop.

The ash staves knapped with a shriek, and flew in splinters about the field.

They have come back up the Richelieu River from the Iroquois villages with their nails gone, their fingers torn out, a cinder where their eye should be, and the scars of the pine splinters as thick upon their bodies as the fleurs-de-lis on yonder curtain.

You will find the shutters splintered at the bottom.

I'll bet he's biting splinters out of his desk.

Here she was held by two warriors, who mounted the rest beside her, and who applied lighted splinters under her arms.

By a miracle the palisade was not struck, but I heard a rending and splintering in the forest where tall trees had met their doom.

A splinter off that pick-handle, stuck two inches under his skull, in his brain!

Swinging this over his shoulder, hampered by the narrowness of space, he struck again and again, with all his strength, the upper panel splintering beneath the third crashing blow.

Throwing all her weight against the bars, Nyoda bent them out and upward, the wood that held them at the top splintering with the strain.

Now, as Mrs. Purcell's eyes met Mr. Raleigh's, and her hand was still extended for the cup, Marguerite fastened her glance on its glittering ring, and said abruptly, "Mrs. Purcell, have you a husband?" Mrs. Purcell started and withdrew her hand, as if it had received a blow, just as Mr. Raleigh relinquished the cup, so that between them the bits of pictured porcelain fell and splintered over the equipage.

They saw the gleam Of swift, up-lifted swords, and then A breathless moment came, as when The lithe and living lightning's flash Makes pause, until the thunder's crash Is splintered through the air.

Thus saying, he mounted the window in his turn, and, even as the door splintered behind him, forced himself through, and, leaping wide, whirled over and over, down and down, and the sluggish river closed over him with a mighty splash; thereafter the placid waters went upon their way, bubbling here and there, and dimpling 'neath the waning moon.

The woodwork splintered above the outlaw's head; Tex Calder seemed to laugh, but his lips made no sound.

The wreckage was torn and hacked and splintered until first one gun and then another roared into action again.

But the first swallow he took killed him, horribly; and Ailsa, her arms drenched with blood, shrank back and crouched shuddering under the roots of a shattered tree, her consciousness almost deserting her in the roaring and jarring and splintering around her.

No words can tell of the ear-stunning roar of the guns, or depict the horror of the tons of steel daily crashing and splintering amid massed bodies of men, while the softly-falling snows of late winter covered, but could not conceal, the ensanguined landscape.

It would be difficult to patch up the grey old tower of Huiron Church, through which shells had come crashing, or to rebuild its oak roof whose beams were splintered like the broken ribs of a rotting carcase.