253 Verbs to Use for the Word fragments

The Rituale Ecclesiae Dunelmensis, containing fragments of the Roman liturgy from the end of the seventh to the ninth and tenth centuries, includes forms of blessing for the different festivals, sometimes three, sometimes nine.

Let me now gather some gold dust,some more fragments of Dr. Johnson's conversation, without regard to order of time.

" "Do not be afraid to be truthful, ever," she said, and added,"Once more, will you tell me where you found the fragment you have given me?"

As Lucetta was retiring, she stooped to pick up the fragments of the torn letter; but Julia, who meant not so to part with them, said, in pretended anger, "Go, get you gone, and let the papers lie; you would be fingering them to anger me.

Of the church there is left a few fragments of walling, of St Augustine's tomb, nothing whatsoever.

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

One cracked the shell and found icicles beneath, and miserably held fragments of egg in one's mouth until they thawed!

She was idly throwing fragments of wood into the river.

He must have begun his journey with some small bundle under his arm, and must have lost it or had it stolen, for he still carried his wretched fragment of a fur cap like a bundle, though he went bareheaded through the rain, which now fell fast.

Betty, busying herself by fetching cups and saucers from the china pantry, caught fragments of the conversation, and became aware that Miss Moppet was telling the story of her adventure at Great Pond, in the child's most dramatic fashion, and that Miss Euphemia was also adding her testimony to the tale as it went on.

He brought fragments of rock to the cave's mouth, the biggest he could find, boulders which he rolled from the further dark, and with which he struggled mightily as he piled them one on the other.

She sat in the window, and listlessly read over to herself a fragment of her own poetry: SAPPHO She lay among the myrtles on the cliff; Above her glared the moon; beneath, the sea.

Of the intended victim there was no sign save a few fragments of wood bobbing in a swirl of water.

He tore this down and sent the fragments of it scattering.... "Fool!" It was a reliefa definite abandonment.

But Guasti, conscientiously collecting fragments of Michelangelo's verses, gives six lines, which he found at the foot of the epistle: Vo' sol del mie morir contento veggio: La terra piange, e'l ciel per me si muove; E vo' men pietà stringe ov' io sto peggio.

He handed his glass to the mate, who carefully examined every fragment which appeared above water.

" Eusebius has preserved some fragments of this criticism on oracles by Oenomanus.

" She continued to advance, belligerent and victorious; and Clotilde, who had laid on the table the blackened fragments rescued by her from the burning flames, protected them with her body, fearing that her grandmother would throw them back again into the fire.

Gaius, who flourished in the time of the Antonines, was a great legal authority; and the recent discovery of his Institutes has revealed the least mutilated fragment of Roman jurisprudence which exists, and one of the most valuable, which sheds great light on ancient Roman law; it was found in the library of Verona.

Next second, however, hearing Hornby's returning footsteps, I flung the fragments hastily beneath the couch where I had discovered them.

Sir Thomas appeared to breathe easier; he deliberately tore the cablegram into small bits, then tossed the fragments into a wastepaper basket before waving his caller to a chair.

In 1910 Harrison, having placed fragments of an embryo frog in a drop of coagulated lymph taken from an adult, saw them continue their development for several weeks, the muscles and the epithelium differentiating, the nervous rudiments sending out into the lymph filaments similar to nerve fibers.

"Among other things, we were shown the 'Magna Charta'a few fragments of worn-out paper on which some words could be traced; now carefully preserved in a frame, beneath a glass.

He gave you just a fragment of himself.

Then he took up the fragment of marble, and replaced it on the shelf, and when he had again locked the press with a vigorous turn of the hand, he put the key into his pocket.

253 Verbs to Use for the Word  fragments