“There was a sharp crack of splintering paneling, and Newt swore colorfully in Latin.”
“A lot of good the door did. The man's pheromones oozed through the keyhole and the crack underneath the panelled wood.”
“Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.”
“Inside, a piece of him cracked; it was as though an emotion that had calcified into bone got tapped with a tiny hammer and splintered straight through.”
“A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look. but all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire.”
“Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt."Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired."Very good answer.”