Behind the Duke, the shells still fall, continuing to widen the gap in the walls as yet more shattered stones slide down, exposing archers' galleries and passages.
A burnt mound is an archaeological feature consisting of a mound of shattered stones and charcoal, normally with an adjacent hearth and trough.
Alaire saw a strip of leather on the floor, with what looked like shattered stones.
One of the dead young men, on a southern Eritrean slope of shattered stones and soldiers' bodies, left behind the start of a journal.
She raised a hand, commanded the walls to rise, the color to return to the creatures that lay broken beneath the shattered stones, but nothing happened.
And in the morning, the soldiers knew, they would be asked to go to those walls and climb the tumbled ramps and fight their way through the shattered stones.
When it was over, I stood looking around at the shattered stones of the floor and remembering the lamp.
An explosion rocked the next pad, spraying shattered stones to rattle off the hull of the yacht by Kirk.
As they watched, one of the plummeting stones tore a climber loose and carried him onto the shattered stones at the foot of the almost vertical face.