Today only a cleared expanse of land marks where they stood, but the adjacent school which remained standing has been cleaned and repaired.
And then one day I went in and raised the venetian blind and saw again what had been hidden for years the clear expanse of river and sky.
Under a clear spring sky, the Million Mom March crowded the grassy expanse of the National Mall, cheering one speaker after another who assailed the National Rifle Association and its power over Congress.
Tables are uncovered; chairs afford a clear view to the kitchen at the back, where a serious expanse of stainless steel suggests serious venting (a promise in itself).
From an expanse of flawless white sand, implausibly turquoise water shelves out over a stoneless seabed to a clear horizon.
Clear-cut expanses soon gave way to a uniform crop of oil-palm groves: orderly trees, a sign that we had crossed into an industrial palm plantation.
From the south side, there is a clear view of what once was, and early yesterday, people circled under the arch and paused to gaze down Thompson Street at the vast, empty expanse of smoky sky, brightly illuminated in the night.
Now it was a ghostly, open expanse.
For the next two days we walked along the edge of Australia – across the vast white sand and clear water expanse of Prion beach, to Surprise bay (clearly signposted, disappointingly) and Granite Beach, where we ended day five with a refreshing – actually freezing cold – shower under a beautiful beachside waterfall.
The findings make for a clearer picture of our cosmic neighbour, once viewed as an arid expanse, but now considered a frost-coated rock that holds water throughout.
Yesterday, where firefighters once crunched through the crystalline litter of unfathomable debris, there was a gleaming expanse of clear space, ready to be filled with pedestrians.
