Ms. Novack also sought to gain control of the estate of her husband's mother, Bernice Novack, who was found dead in April 2009 in her Fort Lauderdale home with severe injuries to her head, broken teeth and broken fingers.
I walked over to the staircase and there, at the bottom, was the clay head, broken into a dozen pieces.
The figure of the child perched on her knee is physically ruined, his head broken off by rough handling or wear and tear.
From this vantage point, he watched the now greatly diminished moon drift down toward the far black horizon like a pale phosphorus match head broken off in the striking.
I've been trending to these galactic structures lately — last summer I had my head broken open by Doris Lessing's "Four-Gated City" and so now appear doomed to read the Martha Quest novels — backwards.
After admiring the fidelity with which each side of the path -- each garden, fountain and statue -- mirrors the other, Close is surprised to come across a damaged figure of Lucifer with his head broken off and lying on the ground.
