He is 27, a stocky, tough-looking Bedouin from the Baba Amr district of Homs, with a wild stare and skin burned a dark brown by the sun.
You can see the tell-tale hock burns – dark red patches – on the leg around the knee joint in the shops, which are caused by squatting in dirty litter because their legs hurt or are deformed.
On some pots the molding was left unglazed, so that it burned to a dark reddish brown an effective contrast to the colour of the glaze.
His mother's photograph burned through the dark of the arena, and Bono's face as he sang appeared near it amid a sky full of stars.
He was thin, like a water bird, his shoulders stooped; bald-headed, in his frighteningly gaunt face two pure dark-brown eyes burned – two pure burning eyes, yet eyes not burning from an inner fire but merely reflecting back, like two still mirrors that something is burning outside.
My school was in the middle of a housing estate on the west coast of Scotland, and you'd hear shouts outside, dogs barking, as the lights of the classroom burned in the early dark.
Glints of light appeared where matches flared or the whites of eyes (and sometimes lips) shone out, or bleached faces and hands stood out against a coal-dark wall; none of this lit up anything, but only burned small openings in the dark.
Wells fills a dish with a dark soil from burned chaparral.
Three sets of eyes burned into us from behind dark glasses.
These discs differ from regular CDs in having a light-sensitive organic dye layer which can be "burned" to produce a chemical "dark" spot, analogous to an ordinary CD's pits, that can be read by existing CD and CD-ROM players.
