debris

Two months after, they learned from Bowen, commander of the Albemarle, that the debris of shipwrecked vessels had been seen on the coasts of New Georgia.

Scarce had the debris settled than the ape-man was among the beasts, quieting their fears, talking to them in low, pacific tones, stroking their shaggy bodies, and assuring them, as only he could, that the immediate danger was over.

Two or three waiters in a few seconds succeeded in removing the debris of the accident, the orchestra commenced a favourite waltz.

A cash box had been hastily smashed open and thrown under the debris.

it had partially filled with debris so that how large it had originally been was difficult to say.

Here may spring up new and mongrel races, like new formations in geology, the amalgamation of the "debris" and "abrasions" of former races, civilized and savage; the remains of broken and almost extinguished tribes; the descendants of wandering hunters and trappers; of fugitives from the Spanish and American frontiers; of adventurers and desperadoes of every class and country, yearly ejected from the bosom of society into the wilderness.

The wreckage of the spring washing appeared everywhere--piles of sluice-boxes, sections of elevated flumes, huge water-wheels,--all the debris of an army of gold-mad men.

All about him was the debris of the feast, and he scented the smouldering odours of dying fires and burnt meat.

The girl cast a glance about the room filled with a chaotic mass of debris, and at the red, writhing body of her mother.

The waves had receded, leaving bits of dark debris upon the ground.

A jet of fire, smoke, and debris sprang from the middle of the grotto, enlarging as it mounted.

Upon the crumbling debris along the face of the buildings trees had grown, and vines wound in and out of the hollow, staring windows; but the building directly opposite them seemed less overgrown than the others, and in a much better state of preservation.