The blast had caught the dog from in front-the chest-cavity was literally exploded, and the neck and head burned and smashed unrecognizably.
"The Keeper"
Henry Beam Piper
But once he had passed over the threshold to find that unrecognizably trim room empty, his face grew heavy with disappointment; he was on the point of going back outside to scan the bowl of the valley when a tall, short-skirted figure, enveloped in a voluminous apron which Fat Joe in a moment of mistaken zeal had once provided for the cook-boy, flashed through the passage-way from the kitchen annex and barely missed catapulting into his arms.
"Then I'll Come Back to You"
Larry Evans
Bories looked singularly near and small to me, it was almost unrecognizably so, and the mountains beyond seemed diminished also, appeared no higher than little hills.
"The Story of a Child"
Pierre Loti