I'm wondering if forensics can lift prints from tattered and singed bits of paper.
What would have been long months of decomposition took place in a matter of seconds, leaving the skull beneath that creased cap grinning at them through tattered bits of hanging flesh.
This one was clad, not in armor or a ragged uniform, but in tattered bits of fine clothing and jewelry.
He poked at tattered bits of clothing to check for bodies.
They were emaciated and garbed in tattered, loose-hanging bits of fabric, which fluttered in the chilly breeze that never seemed to cease.
The figurehead and three masts with a few tattered bits of stiff and crusted canvas were visible above the stagnant water and pond lilies of the swamp.
And he knew in what tattered bits remained of his soul he'd been deceived.
A tattered bit of cloth with a drop of blood on it.
Like the zombies, some of the bare skeletons carried weapons or wore tattered bits of rusty armor.
Jenny knew her ex-husband would never part with this tattered bit of his past.