It had been carried out and had been dashed savagely against the garden wall, under which its splintered fragments were discovered.

Cato picked his way over the splintered fragments.

And each splintered fragment became a flame just like the first and began burning and the darkness receded before the light.

The grandfather clock lay in ruins among broken furniture and ornaments and the splintered fragments of the study door which the firemen had axed down.

The area had been planned as a park, but now only splintered fragments lay on the ground all the way to the dark watchtower and open gate.

"Claire," he said very softly, and the smashed and splintered fragments showed clear, sharp and jagged in his eyes.

I reached out a hand and felt splintered fragments of wood.

Deafened by the concussion, pelted by splintered fragments, Kane twisted frantically to roll clear.

In front there rose a tall arch, still showing the fragments of old carven work within, worn and splintered and blackened though it was.

Both heavy cruisers staggered, bucking as the kinetic energy transferred into them, and huge, splintered fragments of hull spun away from them.