The man doubled over, and the surprised guards allowed Irene to tear herself free, leaving shreds of cloth in their hands.

Whatever shreds of masculine pride the poison had left O'Brien were blown away like pollen by his oversensitive reaction to it.

He dragged free of her, leaving shreds of his skin under her fingernails.

It tears the rubber right off the rim and leaves little tiny shreds of it all over a twenty-foot radius.

It was too late to rescue whatever shreds of dignity he had left.

Throwing his full weight against it, he tore it away from the window, leaving shreds behind.

The kzin and the protector were inextricably tangled and rolling downhill, leaving shreds of black cloth.

The black clouds of suspicion, gathered once over the white coats, had left shreds behind hovering here and there.

Soon even they disappeared, leaving only bright shreds and the girders themselves.

The winds have left only shreds of the canvas, and Dorrin had been forced to cut away the pieces of the dangling lower crossbeam.