Taking a moment to gather herself, Gomez forced away the lingering images of the crewman's body and the way the skeleton's fragile remains had given way under her panicked assault as she fought to extricate herself from the crawlway.

"Sturdy minerals rather than fragile organic remains may provide the most robust and lasting signs of biology".

Today, only a few fragile remains of Matildaville are visible.

Spock moved a few steps into the fragile remains of the dead Tholian vessel he was examining and knelt next to the shattered crystalline corpse of its Tholian pilot.

Endangered languages are the fragile remains of a monumental collective human effort spanning tens of thousands of years to understand and explain the world, the universe and ourselves.

The image of a sad house cat, lost without its cruelly removed claws, is a guaranteed heartbreaker, but the reality is that abandoned cats, deadly predators by trade, devastate the fragile remains of our ecology.

By the time the bull was discovered the wood had decayed away and the bull was recovered only by casting wax around the fragile remains and then lifting the remains out for later conservation.

Yelén and her autons had studied the fragile remains.

As the fragile and pitiful remains were carried carefully to the house I congratulated myself on our luck in having found such an admirable place.

Gale-force winds off Nantucket tore to shreds a tarpaulin protecting the ship's fragile remains.