A third cause of decline to which the American experience shows socialistic institutions to be incident is a certain weakness in the management, produced sometimes by divided counsels, sometimes by the delay involved in getting the sanction of a Board to every little detail of business, and sometimes by a difficulty which we find also shattering similar experiments in France, that men were raised to the Committee by their gifts of persuasion rather than their gifts of administration.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The voice broke like a stone shattering a sheet of glass.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
The log that had been smouldering all day on the open hearth broke and fell with a shattering of embers.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard