ON A cold morning, when the mist rises over the canals that criss-cross the countryside, spreading over the woods and flatlands, the Netherlands does not feel like a sink-hole of pollution.
The water was now spreading over the street.
Nevertheless, a pall of anxiety seems to be spreading over the land.
More than rebel exultation, clearly, is evident in the street art spreading over the land.
So says a senior Pakistani official, underlining the paralysis spreading over the federal government in Islamabad.
Its spreading over the ages was seen as slow and cold.
A vast sweep of shadow is coming off the rim above, spreading over the Tonto plateau.
"We look up at them and see their shadows spreading over the valley's edge toward us.
Water hyacinth runners grow tens of centimetres per day, spreading over the surface of rivers and wetlands.
Subsequent layers of his character appear in dizzying sequence, "spreading over the mirror, the walls, the rooms, the earth...
"A furor of political correctness is spreading over the land," fumed the article, which compared the revisions to those made by Orwell's Ministry of Truth.
