Where Arcadia and Elysium lay, there was a desolate waste, pocked with craters.
One cruel irony is that, in a city pocked with abandoned properties, it is hard to find land for development.
The first lure has barely pocked the water when a fish strikes.
Along a path pocked by shattered homes and businesses, the storm unleashed tornadoes and dangerous winds, easily flipping cars and trucks in Georgia.
But Ragnarsson says Iceland's volcanic landscape is a world treasure and should not be criss-crossed with steam pipes and transmission lines or pocked with power plants.
Squeezing past the stiff bulk of Eric, the stuffed bison, in the hall, she would creep down the bullet-pocked stairs and step out into Albert Street.
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Stretching east from the pass is a long valley pocked with ultramarine lakes, watched over by sheer walls of striated granite that are striped with the wispy white of flowing waterfalls.
On Tuesday nights the place to be is Bullet's Sports Bar in the Seventh Ward, a neighborhood of single-story "shotgun shacks" and small businesses pocked with half-burnt houses and empty lots.
Caroline pulls on the loose straps of her backpack, a filched Pinkie Pie, its tail braided, its eyes pocked by a pen point, now zipped into one of the many compartments.
It is incredible that this factory is still making guns in New York, as towns all over upstate New York and New England are pocked with rotting brick buildings that were once factories.
If, after several hours, this hope doesn't return, he will pause to gather himself, and then he and his cello will coax Albinoni's Adagio out of the firebombed husk of Dresden and into the mortar-pocked, sniper-infested streets of Sarajevo.
The four decades following America's first Gilded Age in the 1870s were pocked with dislocation: multiple financial panics, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the fall of the Manchu dynasty, the onset of the Mexican Revolution and Otto von Bismarck's German makeover.
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