The sound of a machine breaks into my consciousness, stealing my last few fragments of hope and leaving me with nothing except the unwanted knowledge that I am in a hospital. (bookbrowse.com)
Palaeontologists have unearthed various land - dwelling ancestors of whales and early forms of fully marine whales, but never more than few fragments of the animals that might have come in between. (newscientist.com)
Unfortunately, the ideas of Heraclitus and his contemporary Parmenides are available to us only in a few fragments, and these provide merely a hint of their thought. (religion-online.org)