Before she could jump clear, one foot tangled in the debris, breaking through the jumble of broken plaster and lath.

But the wide room just within the entrance was empty except for drifts of leaves, fibrous ceiling panels, broken plaster, and other debris.

As of April 2009, renovation work has been started by Italian artists who have filled the cracks and replaced broken plaster.

I remembered the broken plaster on the wall and Tse-tse asleep on the housetops.

He looked thoughtfully at the cleared piece of wall, and the metal square framed by paper and broken plaster.

It was empty, its walls nothing but broken plaster, showing the bare laths within.

He picked himself up from a mess of broken plaster and splintered lath.

Nervously, he stepped into the room and walked around, crunching the broken plaster that had fallen from the crumbling ceiling.

He clenched his fists in reflex, visualizing the broken plaster as his head.

Nothing on the second-floor landing, but cobwebs above and bits of broken plaster below, cracked off from the ceiling.