Tile shards are as sharp as glass, so after removing a tile, vacuum thoroughly and wipe the surrounding area with a damp paper towel to pick up any stray fragments.

- You know, the stray fragments above the Ring are very rare.

Some stray fragments remained with me for years and occasionally bubbled up into consciousness for no reason I could fathom, but I'd never purposely tried to recall them.

After that..." He shook his head, and a stray fragment of sunlight turned the edge of his long hair to blazing silver against the black of his robe.

But he swept the nagging thought aside when stray fragments of the dream returned to remind him of what he had lost ... what he had never possessed.

Just stray fragments here and there," Lawler said.

Crashing on my stomach inside the cart, I notice a triangular, stray fragment of glass right above my chest.

It was a stray fragment of thought, swiftly vanished.

Elayne plucked a stray fragment of bark from her dress and, finding there was no place to put it, held it clenched in her hand.

"It's okay," she said, trying to gather all the stray fragments of herself that seemed to be rolling round the tiny clearing like beads of mercury.