1 Third is Eurytion, thy brother, O Pandarus, great in renown, thou who of old, when prompted to shatter the truce, didst hurl the first shaft amid the Achaeans.
2 In a moment Tyrrhenus and fiery Aconteus charge violently with crossing spears, and are the first to fall; they go down with a heavy crash, and their beasts break and shatter chest upon chest.
3 Messapus, eager to shatter the treaty, rides menacingly down on Aulestes the Tyrrhenian, a king in a king's array.
4 Cathleen was as white as Cade had been the day Scarlett called, white and hard and brittle, as if her face would shatter if she spoke.
5 I don't want you to sing it, and she laid her glass so impetuously and blindly upon the table as to shatter it against a carafe.
6 Finally, all is wrapped in an immensity of silence which even the far, faint echoes of persons singing in the void of the plain cannot shatter.
7 Everything was assumed to be possible for Napoleon, they expected him from every side, and invoked his terrible name to shatter each other's proposals.
8 But his happiness was so immense that this confession did not shatter it, it only added another shade to it.
9 There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 10 Scattered, shattered, hither thither summoned by the bell.
11 And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE 12 No spider ever took more pains to repair the shattered meshes of his web, than did Waldemar Fitzurse to reunite and combine the scattered members of Prince John's cabal.
13 "I'd sooner go without drink at Lammas-tide than be a man of no moon," continued Christian, in the same shattered recitative.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 14 He has taken to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his nervous system is shattered.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY 15 My father had fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS