The Terminator had swept over the figure almost two hours ago, leaving only the greatly diminished albedo of the jagged, shrunken lump of Lunar to light his way.

He showed her how to bang two chunks together until one or both shattered, leaving large, nearly even pieces instead of jagged lumps.

He was very close to Riddle-De-Dum's tom-out answer section now; he could feel it under his finger, a kind of jagged lump.

It ran, high and level and almost straight, from the north, where its Precipitous crags dropped sheer from the edge, black against the pale, early morning light, to the south, where a jagged lump stood up, breaking its smooth run.

He crouched, searching for the jagged lump of metal he had planted here.

A jagged lump of rock about a meter wide presented a flash of crystal in the broken rays of afternoon sun.

All about him were flailing lumps, dark and jagged, haloed by churning bubbles, but he forced his eyes to remain open, alert for debris which might pin him to the sea bottom by its weight, searching for the first sign of the spiked coral which would flay him alive.

The Americans' aim was better now, and they were firing low; the twenty-four-pound balls sent splinters racing across the deck in clouds, great jagged lumps of sharp-edged wood, and one of these struck Bonden down.

Even then Killick stood for a great while, livid and glaring, a boarding-axe in one hand and a jagged lump of basalt in the other.

Homesickness lay like a jagged lump in the back of Tach's throat.