There was a blinding flash of red light, and with a great splintering and crashing, the door of Moody's office was blasted apart-Moody was thrown backward onto the office floor.
Michael Holmes, CNN Anchor (voice-over): Alarming signs in Iceland, where waves of tremors are shaking and splintering parts of the country and experts say the seismic activity there is likely to get worse.
Just at this moment Stuart heard a splintering crash, saw the bow of the Lillian plow through his rigging, and felt the whole ship tremble from stem to stern with the force of the collision.
Beyond the grey bastions of Fort Adams a long-drawn sunset was splintering up into a thousand fires, and the radiance caught the sail of a catboat as it beat out through the channel between the Lime Rock and the shore.