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X-Ray film of the chest showed increased lung markings with a patch of hazy shadow in the left lower lung near the heart border.

Suddenly I saw a young male ruby-throated hummingbird in what had been a patch of flowering tobacco.

He was at the office door when he saw it: a patch of shivering light dancing on the doorframe.

They sailed into a patch of yellowing lotus leaves, the large green plates crunching noisily against the boat.

The two of them, Krista with a patch of gauze taped over her eye and Smudge with hardly any sight at all, sat by the garden pond.

at the other end was a patch of studded sky that could have belonged only to once-upon-a-time Earth.

No pain was more striking than a patch of green stood out in ruins.

One day I looked down in a clear lagoon and noticed how a patch of lilies was anchored in desert sand.

There was a patch of raw skin on my back where the sun had burnt it.

The answer is found in a little piece of paradise, a patch of rainforest in eastern Brazil. Everywhere you look, something is growing.

The Kepler telescope will orbit the sun to watch a patch of space thought to contain thousands of stars like us.

Sitting right here at my computer I could rapidly develop teeth a person can see right through when I smile in a patch of sunlight.

Along the way I made out a patch of opium poppies waiting to be harvested.

It's located in a patch of a recently renovated picturesque alleyway between walled courtyard homes in the old city.

A patch of sand far from the water appears clean when lighted by a normal flashlight on a Pensacola, Florida-area beach.

Sometimes this happens in the womb and all that can be seen at birth is a patch of scalp where there are no hair follicles.

Use a patch of healthy nettles as a sign of good soil and grow plants alongside them that thrive in similar conditions.

The lorry went into a spin on a patch of ice.

To one side of the town was a patch of ground with several tombstones . "That's creepy. " Said Annie.

My mother heard him and swatted him on the arm so hard that a patch of red bloomed on his skin.

through a window and into a patch of rose blossoms.

Jesus warned us about the folly of putting a patch of new material upon an old garment, or of putting new wine into old bottles.

She had spotted me talking with two guys who were were sitting on a patch of ground eating boiled eggs and sipping baijiu.

Although most of their scales have been lost, tunas and mackerels retain a patch of coarse scales near the head called the corselet.

Every time either one spotted a patch of unsettled ground or an oddly-placed bundle of wood, he would raise a hand to halt the patrol.

The double act came at the launch of two ferrochrome blast furnaces in a patch of desolate scrub 60 miles west of Pretoria.

Burning hot on a winter's day, a brush fire consumes a patch of dried marsh, drawing spectators at a golf course in Denver, Colorado.

Striking the ground at reentry speed, the gas could immediately disperse over a patch of ground as big as two football fields.

Their homes are separated from the bus terminal by a patch of walled waste ground, owned by the ministry of defence.

It was Mr. Obama's first visit as president to ground zero, a patch of lower Manhattan that Bin Laden turned into hallowed ground.

Now she supports her family the only way she knows how, by growing a patch of cassava.

A patch of east London has quickly become a world-class technology hub. Britain's government has taken an interest; others might too.

One evening I struck a patch of vegetables and flowers in the midst of a desolate shelled area.

We ran into a patch of thick fog just outside Edinburgh.

Russia's national oil consortium was also assigned a patch of the Orinoco heavy oil belt.

A patch of moonlight came through a window six feet away to shine on bookshelves .

Then I went through a patch of being really quite good, enjoying every second of it, really flying.

It was a good thing I was passing a patch of forest last time, don't worry, I buried it well.

We went down to the river and put a circle of flat stones on a patch of sand.

Moving deeper into the maze of ice and shadows, they saw a patch of light ahead, another way out.

In the east, a double rainbow spanned the clouds, its arches holding up a patch of blue sky.

Hermit crabs struggle to cross a patch of oil on a barrier island near East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana.

For instance, there's a small population of chimps in a patch of forest called Kwitanga, about ten miles east of Gombe.

Eventually, the robot encounters a patch of DNA to which it can bind but cannot cut.

The first, the septal organ, is a patch of smell-sensitive tissue on the septal wall of the nasal cavity.

This egg is sitting in a patch of grass and small flowers even though there's no sun in the cave.

A small sand-colored cat with limp, white paws was sleeping in a patch of shade.

Someone, eventually, will spot even the tiniest error, or tighten a patch of sloppy prose.

There was a patch of garden behind the house.

You can select the Devourer Tank and right click on a patch of Tiberium to 'supercharge' it.

Hikers tarry in a patch of cotton grass in glacier-carved Okpilak valley. Snow on the ridge recalls a long dark winter past.

If football authorities and social networks can turn into states of sorts, who needs a patch of sand?

In a patch of velvety moss, a black snake, called a racer, leaves her eggs.

The bear pauses on a patch of rock weed algae to sniff the air.

A thick stand of cactus, such as a Saguaro forest, can migrate onto or off of a patch of southwestern desert in little as 100 years.

Gray reef sharks and red snappers hover above a patch of table coral, waiting for prey fish to emerge.

on the pavement outside , the row of gas jets flaring on the cornice of the theater cast a patch of brilliant light.

"Wow! " She cried as we strolled by a patch of multicolored wildflowers.

The group claimed a patch of mud on the rim of a slope.

Watch for early signs of skin cancer -- discoloration, a mole that changes shape or color or a patch of rough, red skin.

By the end an unknown cast has become a trio of indelible faces, a patch of land a glimpse of purgatory.

In Papua New Guinea a guide led me into a patch of jungle which was once a Japanese military airfield.

The entire future of human space exploration may rest on a patch of lunar ice.

A PATCH of pavement outside the district court has become a second home for Detroit's reporters.

If you notice a patch of hard, pale, cold skin, you may have frostbite.

Hikers tarry in a patch of cotton grass in glacier-carved Okpilak valley.

Finally I came upon a patch of gorgeous crimson leaves.

fell on A patch of sunlight fell on his face.

Slipped on a patch of ice and sprained his ankle.

A single tree, a patch of bamboo, or a pond become central figures of the space.

He reset a patch of land with tomato plants.

The truck skidded on a patch of ice.

You find a patch of dandelions and suddenly recall a scene from your childhood.

a patch of open ocean with penguins.

Example : A patch of brown on the skin.

But no one should blame McGrady for wanting to buy the kids a patch of grass.

A puddle of water or a patch of mud may make them break a leg or sprain a knee.

In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads.

An aerial view of a patch of forest near Presque Isle, ME on Friday, September 25, 2009.

Today, I went snowboarding and fell backwards, hitting my head on a patch of ice.

The P2008 lifted off at about 45kt and we climbed away to the northeast towards a patch of inviting blue sky.

A patch of brown on the skin.

Collapsed on a patch of sand in front of some boats I stared up at washed-out alien sky.

Jackie mows a strip of uniform width around her 25m by 15m rectangular lawn and leaves a patch of the lawn that is 60% of the original area.

The mountain climber slipped on a patch of ice.

One card, for example, showed a cow, a chicken, and a patch of grass.

There is a patch of garden in front of the house.

I have a patch of land, in which grow weeds.

In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size.

i owned a patch of land out where that used to be

Light a patch of darkness Treacherous and scary