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Updated: May 20, 2025
A bugle shrilled, eight horses strained against their collars, the drivers cracked their whips, the cannoneers put their shoulders to the wheels, and a gun left the road and swung into position in an adjacent field. On a knoll three miles away an ancient windmill was beating the air with its huge wings. A shell hit the windmill and tore it into splinters.
"Hew away!" said he to his Axe, and away it hewed, making the chips fly again, so that it wasn't long before down came the oak. When that was done, Youngling pulled out his Spade and fitted it to its handle. "Dig away!" said he to his Spade, and so the Spade began to dig and delve till the earth and rock flew out in splinters, and he soon had the well deep enough, you may believe.
And at that started out two knights, who had come down from the castle, seeing the meinie on the down, and asked, "Who art thou who knockest here so bold?" "Who I am any man can see by those splinters, if he knows what men are left in England this day." The knights looked at the broken wood, and then at each other. Who could the man be who could beat an ash stave to flinders at a single blow?
The hollow and slope of the hill were crowded with Infantry battalions lying down in quarter column. The bullets and splinters of the shell smote the ground on all sides. We were both mounted and in the centre of the cone of dispersion.
The Spanish fire was so slow, and their ships so unwieldy, that it was rarely they succeeded in firing a shot into their active foes, while the English shot tore their way through the massive timbers of the Spanish vessels, scattering the splinters thickly among the soldiers, who had been sent below to be out of harm's way; but beyond this, and inflicting much damage upon masts and spars, the day's fighting had no actual results.
Here and there wisps of grass grew, but the ground, for the most part, was covered by splinters of rock or of sand ground from the same. At the farther end of the camp stood a small wooden building, with three tents near try. At a greater distance were several other tents. Three wagons stood at one side of the camp, though horses or mules for the same were not visible.
In public at the condemned sermon he deports himself as becomes the man whose autographs are precious, whose portraits are innumerable; in memory of whom, whole fences and gates have been borne away, in splinters, from the scene of murder. He knows that the eyes of Europe are upon him; but he is not proud only graceful.
She held her breath tight to keep it back. Ah, it had come. Splinters of glass, sharp splinters of glass, first pricking, then piercing, then tearing her heart. Her heart closed down on the splinters of glass, cutting itself at every beat. She looked under the pillow for the little silver box that held her pearls of nitrate of amyl. She always had it with her, ready.
"Halloo!" he shouted; "here's where Mark emptied his fire-pan." They all gathered around, and having brought a supply of light-wood splinters with which to make torches, they each lighted one of these, and began a careful search for further evidences of the missing boy. A shout from Jan brought them to him, and he showed the broken fire-pan which he had just picked up.
He grinned and flicked the gun to full automatic and in a Götterdämmerung of sound in the confines of the room, emptied the clip into his target sending splinters and chips flying and all but demolishing the wooden backdrop. His audience sat back in stunned horror at the demonstration. Mayer said now, "The weapon is simple to construct, any competent gunsmith can do it.
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