Meanwhile, thick lead slugs are hurtling through the fog all around them, splintering against the rock, sending stone shards into their necks and faces.

The air was filled with a burst of flying stone shards.

She noticed, too, that her arm was bleeding from small cuts from the stone shards that had struck her.

She leaped softly down to the overlapping stone shards of the roof, crouching.

On the third swing, the covering finally shattered, and stone shards fell into a hollow area beneath the floor.

Then it crashed to the ground in a heap of gigantic stone shards.

There were stone shards around him, except they lay in a semicircle almost a yard from where he stood.

His hands and knees ached from the crushing pressure of the sharp stone shards under him.

Then a bullet blasted into the chamber, ricocheting in a shower of stone shards.

These stories are picked up and examined like stones, or stone shards.