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Tell us your story, O heroic but dilapidated bird! and perhaps song or legend may find in it themes that shall be immortal. The eagle is silent, and I suspect, Annie, that he is but a plain, home-bred fowl after all. But what shall we say to this piece of plank, hung with barnacles that look large enough for the fabled barnacle-goose to emerge from? Observe this fragment a little.
So saying, he turned off the conversation by inviting me to follow him to the hermitage. In our way thither he pointed out a large fragment of stone, and observed that the water would do me evil instead of good if I forgot to remunerate its guardian. I took the hint, and laid a piece of silver on the fragment.
The most successful 'find' I made was a whole nest of pots, to the number of half a dozen, all in a good state of preservation, and buried with a fragment of skull, which I take from its small size to have been that of a female.
He extracted from a drawer a bottle nearly full of spirits, tippling was not one of Enriquez's vices. "You shall say 'when. 'Ere's to our noble selfs!" When he had drunk, I picked up another fragment of his collection. It had the same label. "You are very rich in 'conglomerate sandstone," I said. "Where do you find it?" "In the street," said Enriquez, with great calmness. "In the street?"
The difference in the effect of the abbreviated text of the Ems telegram as compared with that produced by the original was not the result of stronger words but of the form, which made this announcement appear decisive, while Abeken's version would only have been regarded as a fragment of a negotiation still pending, and to be continued at Berlin.
She was induced to play with a fragment of sole; she ended by eating the wing of a chicken. 'Now, said Mrs. Willoughby when she had set Clarice upon a sofa in front of a cosy fire in her boudoir, 'tell me what all the trouble's about. She drew up a low chair and sat down with a hand upon the girl's arm. 'It's about Sid I mean Mr. Mallinson, she began.
His untimely death, however, has left us with no more than a fragment, in which he confesses that such cases are "embarrassing to his theory." If, he adds, the auxiliary force were placed unreservedly at the disposal of the chief belligerent, the problem would be simple enough. It would then, in effect, be the same thing as unlimited war with the aid of a subsidised force.
The compound of the Embassy is a fragment of British soil. The British flag floats over it; and the Japanese authorities have no power within its walls.
With this girl Aucassin is so deeply in love that he forgets all his knightly duties. At last Nicolette is shut up to get her out of his way, and perhaps the prettiest passage in the whole piece is the fragment of prose which describes her escape from this place: "Aucassin was put in prison, as you have heard, and Nicolette remained shut up in her chamber.
The whole approximates much more nearly than could have been expected to the war-scenes of Homer." Of the poem of Judith, one of the finest specimens of Anglo-Saxon songs, a fragment is preserved in the same volume which contains the story of Beowulf.
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