Word: fragment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Daughter fits neatly beside Fast's Moses. Seven generations have passed since Moses covenanted with Yahweh to worship Him alone. In that time the wheel has turned full circle: the people of Gilead. "grown fat on the oil and milk of the land," are not only a fragment of a disunited Israel but have become easygoing polytheists. Yahweh is no longer the fire-god of Sinai; he is merely one of many gods that dwell in the hills. When Gilead's warriors capture maidens in battle, they no longer sacrifice them to Yahweh; they marry them instead...
...know, you have produced the first successful helicopter." This is a fragment of the congratulatory message sent by Thomas A. Edison offering assistance in further experiments to Dr. Bothezaat, who broke the world's helicopter record at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, by remaining in the air two minutes and 45 seconds at a height of 15 feet...
...Eliot's Fragment of an Agon
...eight fragments failed to show up. Next day three more were gone. On Jan. 9 a single fragment spread its little ionosphere for Dr. Kraus to record. It appeared again on Jan. 10, but on Jan. 11 Dr. Kraus searched the sky in vain...
...merely demonstrated the half-truth of a later dictum that "all authors are musical-boxes which play a limited number of tunes." And yet. at the time of his death he was, like Dickens with Edwin Drood and Stevenson with Weir of Hermiston, midway through what remained a brilliant fragment-Denis Duval, Dickens considered it "the best of all his works...