It was a fine castle, spacious park; but all about it, from the broken piers at the great entrance, to the messy gravel and loose steps at the hall- door, had an air of desertion and melancholy.

A narrow path zigged and zagged down towards the broken little pier that jutted into the unwelcoming ocean.

Weeds and rank river grass grew between the stones of broken piers and shattered paves that had once been streets anal spacious plazas and broad courts.

She found the broken pier where she'd discovered mussels.

From the jungle-edge to the river-bank, among the rotting pillars and along the broken piers they lay, torn and mangled and half-devoured, chewed travesties of men.

Most establishments along the seafront are pretty tatty these days, the view is of a rusting broken pier (why don't the council remove it?!)

Commercial shipping began its decline in the 1940's, leaving only broken piers and abandoned warehouses as a legacy of New York's boating heritage.

A heavy swell pounded and cascaded over the broken pier at the narrow entrance as we made a hair-raising dash through to keep steerage way.

Dead men or shattered horses do not give a more vivid impression of the unrelenting brutality of war than the sight of a structure, so graceful and so essential, blown into a huge heap of twisted girders and broken piers.

The chase comes to a dramatic end when the man who was trying to shoot at Julius loses control of the buggy and it flys up a broken pier then down onto the mines, destroying the factory.