She turns to drinking to ease the pain of her shattered life, and tries working in a department store with little success.

And fear was an emotion that the Mouse had lived with all his short, shattered life.

Herb soon follows, and with Ed's career ruined, he proceeded to pick up the pieces of his shattered life.

Nina tried to piece together her shattered life.

There is another effect of growing older: piecing together a shattered life hardly gets easier.

Pusey Paxmore had crept home to die at the end of a shattered life.

So they left the bees to their aimless, shattered life in the grove of ancient trees, and there was no honey that night.

Not Keller's ring, not anything else that remained of her shattered life.

"I know that mere money cannot compensate for the loss of a loved one or rebuild a shattered life."

He still had no inclination whatever to get back to England and pick up again the threads of his shattered life.