And on this dazzling sheet, spread under the blackness of the clouds and emitting a bluish glow, Captain MacWhirr could catch a desolate glimpse of a few tiny specks black as ebony, the tops of the hatches, the battened companions, the heads of the covered winches, the foot of a mast.
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At the end of the journey, Ms Midwinter said she felt "totally desolate with a card on the front me".
Mr Okiri works in a desolate part of Kenya, for a company that makes its wealth from a strange crust sitting on the top of a lake in the Rift Valley.
Why would Chinese citizens flock to a desolate and half-frozen wasteland in a foreign country when their own, swiftly growing, country affords many better options?
The setting is a cramped, chilly room off a desolate courtyard, sometime in the late nineteenth century, where a poor, elderly couple, Gebo (Michael Lonsdale) and Doroteia (Claudia Cardinale), are haunted by the eight-year absence of their prodigal son, whose wife, Sofia (Leonor Silveira), they have taken in.
The absorbing story, set in a desolate patch of the Mississippi Delta in wintertime, begins obliquely, as a man is found dead, a suicide, in his modest home.
"It took me an hour and a half to find a coffee this morning, " Daniel Miller, a financier from New York, said as he wandered the desolate plaza beside a statue of patriot Samuel Adams.
Behind me, you see pretty much a desolate field, except for the U.S. Jolly helicopters.
Bank of Italy analysts paint a desolate picture of weak consumption and rising inflation.
Her body was found several days later, partially covered with snow in a desolate field outside of town.
Where Arcadia and Elysium lay, there was a desolate waste, pocked with craters.
Steve Okiri has to leave Nairobi during the week, travelling hours from home to work in a desolate place.
It was in a cheaply constructed, boxlike, one-story building on a desolate street of bars, car-repair shops, and empty lots.
To test their new weapon, the scientists chose a desolate stretch of uninhabited, government-owned land in the New Mexico desert.
The seven-part Sundance series revolves around the disappearance of a young girl in a desolate community near Queenstown, New Zealand.
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Jung-rae, a filmmaker who is having trouble writing a script, cajoles his assistant, Chang-wook, into driving him from Seoul to a desolate seaside resort.
Be entirely alone in a desolate landscape in another country.
Coeur managers cut road exposure down to a 10-mile stretch by flying into and out of a desolate gravel landing strip, which they extended 700 feet and will soon pave.
Stuff happens a marriage here, a child there yet Scherfig has no option but to choose sequence over consequence, and the movie soon subsides into a desolate prairie of uneventfulness.
But there is still a desolate no-man's land in the centre which has hardly changed since we visited last year, except for a clock tower with even less of a face.
The town consisted of a couple of hundred houses that seemed to have been airlifted to the wind-battered top of a desolate mountain, which was surrounded on three sides by even higher, more foreboding peaks.
The trend toward New York-style loft living is transforming many old warehouses and office buildings in what was once a desolate area, and as NPR's Luke Burbank reports, the city's newest urban pioneers are bumping against the ones who were there first, the homeless.
Marxists today seem to think that Russia is in a desolate state because the West tried to foist the free market on it, not for any reason remotely connected with Marxism yesterday, or with Russia's refusal to make reforms the West begged it to.
Just as I was starting to get used to my new life, I received a shocking phone call -- the North Korean authorities intercepted some money that I sent my family through a broker, and as punishment, my family was going to be forcibly removed to a desolate location in the countryside.
The Four Seasons at Canary Wharf now bustling as a financial headquarters and barely resembling its former gray, desolate state sports a Virgin Active sports club for use by its guests.
"We see a lot of speed there because it's a really desolate, open road, " says Sgt.
Nearly ten years after its launch, the Lhasa Economic and Technological Development Zone is still a mostly desolate expanse on the edge of the city.
And the Knicks nearly roared back to beat the Celtics in Boston on Sunday if not for Paul Pierce's late Paul Pierce-ness, it would have been a sweet win on national TV (we won't speak about that desolate overtime.) They performed a similar comeback in the second half Tuesday against the Mavericks in Dallas, but as soon as they seized the lead, they frustratingly let it slip.
It may not be paradise now (especially if it is a dusty and desolate corner of Iraq).
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