1 Some persons even got a splinter in their heart, and then it made one shudder, for their heart became like a lump of ice.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 2 A sailor's wife, who was always proud and fine, in her way, came to her neighbor, and complained that she had got a splinter in her finger.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHADOW 3 "It is a mahogany splinter," said the other.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHADOW 4 The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him.
5 His ivory leg had been snapped off, leaving but one short sharp splinter.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day. 6 The blows of the enemy would splinter regiments into fragments.
7 Pale husks had stuck in their hair, and it was easy to run a splinter of wood into the fingers.
8 At any moment guns would rake that land into furrows; planes splinter Bolney Minster into smithereens and blast the Folly.
9 Next instant, with a loud shout of triumph he held up one splinter, in which a round, dark object was fixed like a plum in a pudding.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS 10 His gun burst while out on the hills by himself; a splinter cut his arm, and he lost a good deal of blood before he could reach home.
11 The cook, with her thigh broken by a shell splinter, had been carried into the kitchen.
12 It flew from right to left, and back again, almost in one ticking of a watch, and every instant seemed on the point of snapping into splinters.
13 Shells thrown in reply were raising clouds of dust and splinters.
14 The fine splinters still flew about in the air: and now we shall hear what happened next.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 15 The young, who can't make, but only break; shiver into splinters the old vision; smash to atoms what was whole.