Stomping around Washington, holding summits, bombing Islamic State … bestriding the narrow earth.
When the mayor's car pulled into the narrow earth drive that leads up to the farmhouse, Matozinho immediately thought the worst.
Today, the Pharaohs are Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Banking and the powerful politicians who support them or are silent when their Plagues bestride the narrowed earth like a colossus run amok.
Digging a narrow tunnel through the earth would make any mammal struggle for air.
Mount Manisty, a large mound of earth on a narrow stretch between the canal and the Mersey northwest of Ellesmere Port, was constructed from soil taken from the excavations.
While it may seem natural to zero in on "alien Earths," such a narrow focus would exclude many potentially life-supporting exoplanets, whose diversity continues to astound astronomers, says Sara Seager of MIT.
Yet 90% of global reserves lie in a narrow stretch of rock in the earth's crust called the Bushveld Igneous Complex, and it is above that stretch of rock that Nkuzo has made her home.
He was separated from the French troops by a narrow No Man's Land and described the landscape as: "Strewn with shattered trees, the ground ploughed up by shellfire, a wilderness of earth, tree-roots and tattered uniforms".
There is still time to cobble together a narrow trade agreement to help the poorest nations on earth before the World Trade Organization's ministerial meeting in December.
The Kajaki Dam, made of terraced earth rising more than 300 feet, blocks a narrow ravine in the upper Helmand River to form a massive lake whose bays and fingers reach deep into sheer-walled coulees.
