The reason was simply that a chunk of brick loosened; carrying mortar with it, the fragment dropped down into the courtyard.

Dust flew, and large fragments of stone dropped to the floor, half burying the Squam.

Chris studied the board for a moment, moved the piece and felt a tiny fragment of something detach itself from his heart and drop into his guts.

The rear of the shovel opened; the huge fragments dropped into the truck with a terrific rattle.

The shower was, in its awful fashion, rather pretty; fragments dropping like burning snowflakes, illuminating the night.

There was a tinkle as a final fragment dropped from the smashed panel; then silence.

Fflewddur let the broken fragments drop from his hands.

A large fragment of fencing came sailing past me, dropped edgeways, hit the ground and fell flat, and then the worst was over.

A fragment of mortar dropped with a dry clink.

The fragment drops into simpler geometries.