The hum increased in volume as the shell shattered into fragments and the golden, glistening body of the new female emerged.

We cracked eggs, each boy taking his turn, erupting into paroxysms of laughter as the shell shattered in his grasp.

And pictures in a magazine, fragments of armor plate torn and twisted, welds shattered, bolts torn loose, the whole shell shattered like an egg.

The building's facade acted like a backstop, ab- sorbing the fragments of cannon round and concrete as the shells shattered on the pavement.