It appeared, by what I could
piece together of the unprofane fragments of his statement, that he had chanced upon Sir Ossaise at dawn of the morning, and been told that if he would make a short cut across the fields and swamps and broken hills and glades, he could head off a company of travelers who would be rare customers for prophylactics and tooth-wash.
Then it was that I got the clew of time, and was able to
piece together events and actions in their proper order.
He sat quite still and tried to think calmly, tried to
piece together in his mind the sequence of events which had brought him to this part of the world and which had led to his remaining where he was, an undesired hanger-on at the threshold of Miles Fentolin.
Elizabeth tried to
piece together what little she understood of his monologue.
She knows that people who
piece together the beautiful trifles die early, because the labor is so confining, and so exhausting to hand and brain, and so she has decreed that all these people who reach the age of sixty shall have a pension after that!
"He was a surprise box," he wandered on, while she proceeded to undress him; and bit by bit she was able to
piece together what had happened.
As the door shut for the second time, she sank on to the floor in front of the fire, trying, now that their bodies were not there to distract her, to
piece together her impressions of them as a whole.
Detective Sergeant Hughes added: "I would urge anyone who hasn't already spoken to us to get in touch as soon as possible and help us
piece together the moments before this man lost his life."
As the sound of sirens surrounds him, Donovan takes off for the woods hoping to
piece together the night's events before the police find him.
Ma and her child, Alex, head out on a road trip from their home in Virginia to California, meeting a colorful cast of characters and experiencing the variety of settings that the United States has to offer; each adds a piece to the story of Ma's life that the readers
piece together alongside Alex.
When Charles Lang wakes up in a house he doesn't recognize, with no idea who he is or where he came from, he must rely on the clues around him to
piece together his life.
Officers are trying to
piece together his movements during the couple of days before he was found.