splinters


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wood in small pieces or splinters

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Rosa pushed the table, Cornelius placed the broken arm on it so as to make it flat, and with perfect skill set the bone, adjusted the splinters, and fastened the bandages.
"Those wooden things are impossible to hurt," he said, "and all the damage Jim has done to them is to knock a few splinters from their noses and ears.
When the blow ended the splintered stock was driven through the splintered skull into the savage brain, and the heavy iron barrel was bent into a rude V.
Had that wit been all of the arrogant, upstanding Van Horn, and had it gone out as the flickering flame of a splinter of wood goes out when it is quite burnt to a powder-fluff of ash?
Was that all it was, the flame of the splinter that could be quenched by any chance gust of air?
When he came to himself the splintered portions of his thighbone had been extracted, the torn flesh cut away, and the wound bandaged.
An examination of the wreckage showed that their greatest danger, now, lay in fire, for the flames were licking hungrily at the splintered wood of the wrecked cabin, and had already found a foothold upon the lower deck through a great jagged hole which the explosion had opened.
A clock, in a splintered and battered oblong box of varnished wood, she suddenly regarded as an abomination.
A hundred youths, who had hitherto been restrained by the diffidence of their years, rushed in a frantic body on the fancied emblem of their enemy, and severed it asunder, splinter by splinter, until nothing remained of the trunk but its roots in the earth.
A housewife was seriously injured on both legs and arms after being hit by tile splinters when lightning struck the kitchen of her house at Kampung Kuala Rimau in Air Putih sub-district last night.
The explosion on Monday took place far away from the troops and the injuries sustained were therefore due to the mud debris, stone pellets and splinters.
Removing splinters is a pain for both kids and their parents and often results in lots of tears and upset.
They said informed that different medical operations of several injured had been carried out as some of them were inflicted with broken bones after receiving gunshot and splinters.
Foreign bodies, such as wood splinters, can be difficult to detect if not visualized directly.
THE grandson of a British sailor who survived the Battle of Jutland has kept a unique memento of the 100-year-old conflict - a rum tub made from deck splinters of HMS Iron Duke.