And the globe burst with a noise like a thunder-clap, raining fiery shards on the black marble, and the gold pomegranates, as if released from captivity, shot upward toward the lofty roof and were gone.

On November 26, 2005, the two trains clipped one another on a curve, shearing a door off one train, smashing glass, and raining shards over passengers.

The rocks slammed into the Meadow Wall behind her, smashing through and raining shards of broken granite into the meadow.

The American bullets that spattered off the two-story headquarters building, known as the Secretariat of the Special Republican Guard, rained concrete shards on the company, involved in its first significant fight of the war.

The roof beams, shattering, rained shards of wood, plaster, tiles, down upon him.

An arm shot through the glass, raining glittering shards down on Larry.

Nest Freemark was standing an the sidewalk outside Waterfall Pack when the apartment window exploded as if struck by a sledgehammer, raining shards of glass into the night and sending; feeders scattering into the shadows like rats.

The cream travertine walls were now a most unhealthy color of patchy, seeping pink; and the ceiling, just newly painted, appeared to have been redone in an entirely more pointillist style, and rained scraps and shards of flesh and other tissue down on the empty pedestal.

For a wind cataclysmic instant the sky seemed to rain shards of marble.

The twin flying armadas rained explosions and shards of themselves across the Prokhorovka corridor on both land armies.