As the historic city has been progressively demolished to make way for modern buildings, the pair have retrieved fragments of the razed buildings to make artistic installations from them.

Observers frequently report that Japanese, Taiwanese, and Korean fishermen make every effort to retrieve net fragments for recycling.

I stood glaring down at him for a moment, then shook my head and stooped to retrieve the potato peelings and other fragments that had fallen from the basin.

Late this year, the White House agreed to make the computer available so that the new computer program could try to retrieve fragments of the notes from the computer's memory.

He estimated that his county of 60,000 had spent more than $1.5 million helping locate, guard and retrieve fragments of the shuttle.

That may explain why trauma sufferers have amnesia or can retrieve only fragments, like a smell or sound, or cannot put the events behind them.

With Thor's help Xorr is defeated, and Mercurio retrieves several fragments of the God Jewel for use on Gramos.

Others burrow away underground to retrieve fragments of dead plants from the soil.

They go, and will go again, to spur on their memory, to retrieve fragments from their past.

The files had been deleted, but the F.B.I.'s technical sleuths retrieved fragments, which they say described the planned assignment of a C.I.A. officer to Moscow.