Sentence examples for a splinter of glass from inspiring English sources

A splinter of glass ripped a small hole in the canvas of "The Football Players", by Henri Rousseau, and this was the only painting injured by the fire.

"Twenty One Prayers for Weak or Fabulous Things", the opening poem, recalls an earlier visionary, Christopher Smart, glimpsed during his upbringing in County Durham, and later when confined to a madhouse: "kneeling in a torrent of bees at Staindrop / to pray, or cutting the Song to David into the bare page / of a wall with a claspknife & a splinter of glass".

Still, it is a fair warning, to readers and lovers alike: for every splinter of glass (a soul in torment), there is also a splinter of ice (the torment coolly translated on to the page).

"It's a film about the evil from outside, the splinter of glass that enters a community and turns everything blue and fearful".

He tweezered another splinter of glass out of Keith's face.

She whipped out a sheer silk stocking and a splinter of wood, and squeeee-ran the splinter down the stocking.

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb emerged around 2007 as a splinter of previous armed Algerian Islamic groups.

Whether the injury is from a needle, a nail, a splinter, a shard of glass, or an insect stinger, the administration of a few doses of Hypericum in the initial phase of such injuries is a good precaution to take in order to prevent pain, inflammation, and further complications.

He was thrown sideways by a pressure wave so powerful that he was killed instantly, even before the splinters of glass and metal hit him.

Shortly afterward, we heard loud shouts and the splintering of glass.

All clocks have unbreakable faces, thus depriving prisoners of splinters of glass.