tatters

She was 26 years old and her life was in tatters, her future a black cloud.

But they may not have time with Putin challenging, Crimea invaded and an economy in tatters.

Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa.

“The scolloped tatters of the King in Yellow must hide Yhtill forever,” he muttered, but I do not believe Vance heard him.

Meanwhile the economy is in tatters and the future looks damn bleak.

The girl could scarcely stand from weariness, and her dress clung about her, wet with the river-water and rent to tatters.

Shattered bulwarks, ragged rents in the hulls, sails in tatters and drooping cordage told the story of the desperate battle.

Among these wretches, almost wholly in tatters, some were seen in bizarre accoutrement.

Current-accounts are drawn up on loose sheets and not in books: this is considered a real progress for books are soon in tatters.

Tatters of its pages were blowing in the wind and she stiffened, her face growing pale.