Underfoot there was a mat of beech nuts, and dry beech leaves were blown in the wind.
There was Prince's death, last Thursday, and none of it has registered as a final state because Prince never ended anything; the avalanche of words marking his passing felt, for the most part, like dead leaves being blown about by the force of his ever-shifting continuum, which continues.
Never get frustrated if your neighbor's leaves are blowing into your yard.
As for the hotel, there is nothing left; it was blown to pieces".
It had already been largely taken apart piece by piece, but it was apparently too dangerous to keep moving forward with that approach the only option left was to blow the remaining pieces up.
In the first world war part of the left side of his face was blown off, leaving a jagged scar.
More than 3 million switched off once the final whistle was blown, leaving Eamonn Holmes' National Lottery with just 4.6 million viewers.
Any barriers between the sacred and the sensual that Aretha Franklin may have left standing were blown away by Mavis Staples and her thrilling contralto.
"They left soon after and it was blown up".
In July 2009, the vehicle he was travelling in was blown up, leaving him with a spine crushed in eight places, fractured thyroid cartilage and frontal-lobe brain damage.
