"Vil--Villa!" he cried out, in his excitement dropping the marble, which was broken into atoms by the fall.
My body is no longer firm and terrestrial; it is resolved into its constituent atoms, subtilised, volatilised.
A society of beasts is a collection of atoms, round, hooked, cubical, or triangular, but always perfectly identical.
In an instant the mirror lay at his feet broken into a thousand pieces, but as every piece reflected part of himself, the dragon thought that he too had been smashed into atoms.