Despite being found in fragile pieces, they were both reconstructed and are on display at the on-site museum.

I am no fragile piece of china to be handled carefully, Mother.

But the little memorial, exposed like the others to the wind and the elements, is a fragile piece of testimony.

She held it before her, suspended, a fragile piece of glass.

I don't ever want to be treated like some fragile piece of glass.

Each enterprise in its own way offers a lifeline to this fragile piece of history.

"It's a very fragile piece," he said of the Alexander sculpture.

On the palm was a very small, fragile piece of paper.

Handle the Koran as if it were a fragile piece of delicate art.

It always amused him to see other men treating Jamie like a fragile piece of china.