Mortar blasts have torn through walls, most windows are shattered and the top floors of houses are caved in, a rubble of splintered beams.

Thick, splintered beams of the same color ran at intervals along the ceiling.

I asked at last, staring up at the splintered beams above.

There, caught by a long, splintered beam, he found a wisp of blue wool.

The ground was torn up and in front of my head there was a splintered beam of wood.

It ripped the heavy doorsfrom their splintered beams across the courtyard beyond.

The splintered beams will be examined, said a spokesman for the Department of Transportation, Victor J. Ross.

The clock still works, but splintered beams, dark water stains and a thick layer of grime are visible in the background.

He remembered the splashes of blood on the splintered beams.

There were bodies impaled on iron rods and splintered beams.