Aside from the obvious trauma — a countryside in ruins, thousands dead, a steady stream of substantial aftershocks — some employees had walked more than six hours to get home, many finding no electricity and scarce gas and food when they arrived, Mr. Stringer said.
Soon enough, the cells throughout Wiens's face began declaring themselves dead in a steady cascade, laying waste to skin, muscle, and bone.
A private street could not call upon city or county for the use of heavy equipment, so in the dead of night, as steady rain was falling, a call was put in to John McCafferty — bulldozer for hire.
As the early 90s wore on, the Dead went into a steady decline.
Summer wildfires have been made more voracious by a steady buildup of dead trees and underbrush.
Meanwhile, a steady trickle of dead Israeli soldiers continues, Lebanese civilian casualties mount and rockets still rain onto Israeli towns.
They form on areas of the seafloor distant enough from land so that the slow but steady deposition of dead microorganisms from overlying waters is not obscured by sediments washed from the land.
In New York State, a steady stream of dead birds was already heading from the New York City area to the pathology laboratory in Albany, where tests for the virus were under way.
Reports that the literary novel might be dead, or at least in steady decline, are wide of the mark, the judging chairman of the Folio prize has said as he announced a shortlist of eight writers for the award, including Ali Smith and Colm Tóibín.
Meanwhile, Europe suffered zero mass shootings over the past week, leaving the continent's body toll in such attacks so far this year steady at 37 dead and 125 injured.
