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Strewn across the rounded granite of the headland yesterday was the tangible evidence of the terror that suddenly enveloped the vessel's 4,200 passengers and crew on Friday night, when it listed wildly to starboard, forcing some of those aboard to jump into the icy waters and swim for their lives to the rocks: a shoe here, a T-shirt there.
Cruise ship scene marked by modern totem of disaster in medieval harbour 2012
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Strewn, charred papers shoved in an abandoned sack showed correspondence of officials trying to pursue small corruption cases.
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Strewn on the floor were a few Grad rockets of the sort used against rebel-controlled areas.
As Gadhafi Kin Flee, Rebels Try to Secure Oil Sam Dagher 2011
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Strewn over the desk, and laying in heaping piles on the tops of bookshelf and on the floor, were papers and books.
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Strewn throughout the book, however, are compelling characters and insights into traits that "successful" art crimes typically share.
The Artlessness Of Art Thieves Benjamin Wallace 2011
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Strewn around her were books from the imperial library, but she did not want to read now, she desired only to exult in this freedom—the ability to put her face through the curtains, to watch the light, feel the heat, and know herself alone and yet protected.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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Strewn around her were books from the imperial library, but she did not want to read now, she desired only to exult in this freedom—the ability to put her face through the curtains, to watch the light, feel the heat, and know herself alone and yet protected.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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Strewn in that invective were some technical bits, too.
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Strewn with litter and increasingly short of supplies, the fortified protest zone has an increasingly forlorn and desperate air, cut off from the rest of the city by military checkpoints.
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Strewn around are broken furniture, trucks, rafters that had been used to support houses? evidence that homes once stood here.
Pakistan floods: people return home to find nothing left, nothing at all Saeed Shah in Drab Korona 2010
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