How To Use Swath In A Sentence
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A big Chinaman, remarkably evil-looking, with his head swathed in a yellow silk handkerchief and face badly pock-marked, planted a pike-pole on the
White and Yellow
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Nature notes Autumn colours are now becoming more noticeable, though large swathes of the countryside are still quite green.
Times, Sunday Times
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Between short scenes – aiming presumably to distil the essence of Faulks's novel but actually stripping it of atmosphere and verve – swathes of prose are just read out.
Birdsong; On Ageing; The Big Fellah; Yes, Prime Minister
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Her gaze, unfocused, fell on the swath of ivory silk adorning the richly hued carpet.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin.
Times, Sunday Times
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My brother-in-law went into another room, and madame de Bearn began to unswathe her foot in my presence with the utmost caution and tenderness.
Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself
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Plant leans forward, vast swathes of hair tumbling down on either side of his weathered face.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seed sown in early June has produced a swathe of greenery topped by the most attractive blue flowers that seem irresistible to bees, hoverflies and other insects.
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She wears a dark hat, its swath of auburn feather trailing down her back.
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I saw the "yellow brick road" as some kind of swath of leopard-print fabric.
Supermom VS the Diabolical Decorator of Doom
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Shocked The Government is planning to abandon huge swathes of land it says cannot be saved.
The Sun
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The bed itself was framed in dark ebony, its dusky twists spiraling towards the ceiling, while the rest of the room was swathed in black and shades of maroon and blood red.
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Preferably swathed in a scarf which can double as a belt, a bikini top - or even as a scarf.
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The internet has cut a swath right through that.
Times, Sunday Times
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Muslims, instead of being the recipients of more and yet more kinds of aid (that we do not extend to non-Muslims), are forced to start confronting what Islam itself has caused, and what might have been had the "gift of Islam" never arrived in the vast swath of territories that were conquered by the forces of Islam, containing many peoples who found that with Islam came the attempt at arabization.
David Horowitz Freedom Center
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What will be different in this test-fire is the mesh pattern produced when the bullet passes through the window screen before ripping through the Harley jacket and buzz-sawing a swath through the chest of Mr. Jell-O, as he calls his ordnance-gelatin test dummies.
Predator
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It was the kind of unspectacular housing block that makes up vast swaths of the city, scattered in between the genteel stucco mansions that make it into the films.
NDTV News - Top Stories
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We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.
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A pize on it! send it off to those who have their legs swathed with a hay-wisp, their heads thatched with a felt bonnet, their jerkin as thin as a cobweb, and their pouch without ever a cross to keep the fiend Melancholy from dancing in it.
Kenilworth
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This is a picture of the swather that cuts the hay down.
Making hay and a dog shirt...
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And when the anger moves from more easily dismissible protesters in Lower Manhattan to a larger swath of the American citizenry, comments like Perry's "I don't care about that" will not be received well.
Mitchell Bard: Income Inequality Is the Achilles Heel in the GOP Strategy to Demonize Occupy Wall Street
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Had he not always been swathed in white robes, you could have imagined him in a cardie, pottering round his vegetable patch with his little grandson.
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From a distance they gave the appearance of a low gray picket fence on top of which a long swath of green brocade had been spread.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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Sometimes swathes of northern cities find themselves submerged, which is just bad luck, but often as not it affects small villages with thatched houses.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are the questions that plague Coronilla and thousands of others whose relatives from across Latin America have vanished in recent years as lawlessness prevails in large swaths of Mexico.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Conserving their habitat could involve preserving a patch of scrub or delaying the cutting of a swathe of hay for a few days until a bird has fledged its young.
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The area is regarded as prime grazing veld for cattle, forming part of the superior ‘smaldeel’ swathe of sweetveld.
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An ugly swathe has been cut through the magnificent forest opposite the McGarry farm.
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In Germany huge swathes of the Black Forest died, leaving the stark outlines of leafless conifers in place of the formerly rich vegetation.
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Though cross-island expressways had been envisioned by the Regional Plan Association in the 1920s, it was in the postwar years that the megalomaniacal urban planner Robert Moses made Lomex — a proposed 200-foot-wide swath along Broome Street requiring the demolition of buildings housing at least 1,972 families and 804 businesses — the centerpiece of his vision to modernize New York.
Indignation Superhighway
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And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre hewn from the rock.
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A properly adjusted swather is critical for cutting large a acreage in a timely fashion.
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A roadshow hits the region this week to promote new walking rights which should open up large swathes of land to ramblers and countryside enthusiasts.
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And do not think the upside is a great swathe of agility.
Times, Sunday Times
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Aerial photographs showed great swaths of slum dwellings flattened or swept away by landslides.
Times, Sunday Times
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When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's also concerned about great swathes of other public protection measures.
The Sun
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Aerial photographs showed great swaths of slum dwellings flattened or swept away by landslides.
Times, Sunday Times
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His chest was swathed in bandages.
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Writen now in Arabic (plus four letters) rather than the former cuniform script of ancient Persian and having significant swaths of vocabulary consisting of Arabic words and phrases.
Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor"
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Its white breast was bordered by broad dark swaths and had a dark blot right in the center.
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The joints of the limbs I could not see, because of the puttee-like straps in which they were swathed, and which formed the only clothing the being wore.
First Men in the Moon
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Then we go over the hay with this little tractor (my favorite) and an implement called a rake. (this photo doesn't show the rake) It goes down between two windrows that the swather makes and turns the hay over into the center, making a larger windrow.
Making hay and a dog shirt...
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So it came as no surprise when meteorologists determined late Friday that the storm that barreled across a large swath of Brooklyn and Queens a day earlier spawned two tornadoes and a fierce macroburst with wind speeds up to 125 mph.
Authorities: 2 Tornadoes Struck NYC During Storm
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Huge dams are cutting a swathe across the tropical landscape.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet huge swathes of poverty, deprivation and overcrowding still persist.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was standing, waiting, his hefty bulk swathed in wraps that made him look like a particolored pillow.
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Sesostris, or Pharaoh Ramses II, whose mummy was unswathed in 1886 by Maspero of the Bulak Museum, and recognised as that of the greatest king of Egypt, whose grandson, Ramses III, was the last king of an ancient kingdom. when not a mere pretence, degenerated but too often into Black Magic.
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She swathed her enormous body in thin black fabrics.
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Suspended from the ceiling just behind the white marble altar, the cross is backed by a swath of deep purple fabric.
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When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name.
Times, Sunday Times
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Often the pastures are swathed in mist, giving them a dreamlike quality.
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One of the ways in which this is accomplished is by the Mexican government promoting the idea of extraterritorial nationalism among its citizensthat is, the notion that Mexican citizens have an indigenous claim to large swaths of the United States.
Liberty and Tyranny
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His dress comported with his character, for he had almost as much brass and copper without, as nature had stored away within — His coat was crossed and slashed, and carbonadoed, with stripes of copper lace, and swathed round the body with a crimson sash, of the size and texture of a fishing net, doubtless to keep his valiant heart from bursting through his ribs.
A History of New York
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From the wide common over the thick waving fragrant grass came the sweet country music of the white sleeved mowers whetting their scythes and the voices of the children at play among the fresh-cut flowery swaths.
Weatherwatch: Midsummer in Wiltshire in 1875
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The river water, heavily laden with sediments and thus called whitewater, floods the surrounding forest under 6 to 7 m for periods up to ten months each year, affecting a swath of land up to 20 kilometers (km) wide.
Iquitos varzea
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After studying the small print, unions, council leaders and arts chiefs warned that the cuts would cut a swath through jobs in their spheres.
Times, Sunday Times
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He ran so they could chase him, leaving four dark swathes across the frosty surface.
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Bellbirds have been implicated in the death of swathes of forest between Victoria and Queensland.
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Later that day, I finally came to, only to find my head swathed in yards of bandages.
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The next morning, swathed in a towel and sipping coffee from my new espresso cups, life felt fine.
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A swather is a piece of equipment that cuts hay or small grain crops into windrows before baling.
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories
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He's also concerned about great swathes of other public protection measures.
The Sun
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This compact and hardy catmint combines strongly aromatic foliage with swathes of lavender flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The major selling point was that it backed on to swathes of open countryside.
FRIENDS FOR LIFE
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Those seated at the tables swathed in scarlet received tall stemmed glasses of dark fluid.
Arcane Circle
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And it is weird to get off a boring old commuter train to be faced on the platform with a vast embonpoint, half swathed in shiny scarlet shantung silk, half exposed, like being attacked by a giant blancmange with strawberries.
Simon Hoggart's week: Olympic chiefs have built a Brigadoon for the rich
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The neighborhood's main attraction, however, is Glen Canyon Park, a 70-acre swath of city-owned wilderness nestled in a sweeping ravine and just out of sight of several major roads.
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Great swaths of land are dug up all over the world to build new tracks, and noise pollution is horrendous for miles around.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a hurricane approaches land, they lay out a pretty wide swath of possibilities which they call the cone of uncertainty.
Joseph B. Treaster: No Hurricane Worries? Not So Fast
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In Florida's Marion County, Interstate 75 cuts right through a state-long swath of greenway that's habitat for bobcats, opossums, and armadillos.
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The "swath" she is winning may be the racially intolerant white voters. liar, liar, pants on fire
Schneider: Obama not a satisfying choice for KY Democrats
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His head was swathed in bandages made from a torn sheet.
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A dark figure swathed in shadows stood over her, a dagger gleaming in its raised hand.
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It is another object of the present invention to provide a swather belt connector needing fewer separate pieces.
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Multi-beam Swath Bathymeter is a kind of newly developed advanced seafloor surveying equipment with high efficiency, high accuracy and fine terrain resolution.
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The undoubted chief, so swathed in bandoliers of ammunition that bullets fired at him would have bounced off, reached down and grabbed my hand.
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It's a familiar scene in the country - a tractor chugging its way across a field mowing down swath after swath of green alfalfa.
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Renfrew Avenue South East was in the slurbs, the swathe of suburban slums in the unincorporated areas of the county stretching inland from the southern tip of Lake Washington
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Portraits of the royal family placed at crossroads were heaped with garlands of flowers and swathed in burning incense.
BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
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Instead, it was as if the models were swathed in giant fabric sample books, each layer peeling off to reveal another beneath.
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We will have to accept the suburbanisation of whole swathes of the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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Year by year great swathes of this small nation's countryside disappear.
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They contend that large swathes of the population are becoming more rigid in their political allegiances.
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City growth was itself distinctive, combining new manufacturing with huge swaths of dire poverty.
World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
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Common rust is present at levels you only see every five years in a wide swath of east and central Nebraska.
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Ferns are especially handsome as accents among swaths of lower-growing plants such as sweet woodruff or oxalis or growing beside ponds.
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An ancient Egyptian would not be recognisable as such without a swath of luxuriant, raven hair.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wide swath means fewer passes over the target area.
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Otters are now spread across large swathes of the region and have even been spotted swimming in the mouth of Whitby harbour.
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A cot swathed in draperies and blue ribbon stood isolated in a corner.
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It grows in long, fragrant swathes beside the lanes and at the field edges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Broad swaths of asphalt also fragment wildlife habitat and block migration corridors - and will eventually threaten populations isolated from food sources and potential mates.
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His face was deadly white, a bloody bandage swathed his neck, and his rainproof was soaked with the blood of a sniper's victim.
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A set of inconsequential random and rare moments of happiness joined together by swathes of mundaneness.
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It matches the latter's miles of gorgeous beaches, and tops them with mountains swathed in forests and an active volcano.
Times, Sunday Times
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The government has little control over great swathes of the country, much of it dense rainforest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Behind him a rip flows out to sea from the shoreline, a swath of muddy rippled water filled with black sand churned up by its powerful seaward pull.
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Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having explored different directions, most recently the doom-laden troubadour swathed in strings, he has clearly taken a look at his audience and decided to give them what they want.
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Who wouldn't want to be swathed head to toe in a fabric that feels like double cream?
Times, Sunday Times
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Clearly, too, it cannot be channelled towards the benefit of a specific group or sector of society at the expense of the broader swath of the population.
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The lady at the neighbouring table, with wrinkled skin, a beaky nose and bulging eyes, swathed in netted black, cast her withering glance.
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They encompass the provincial governments, national utilities and huge swaths of the land administration.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bodies lay there swathed from head to toe.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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The steering wheel and gearshift knob are swathed in leather while the stereo includes a CD player with aux-in facility and four loudspeakers.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The biggest impacts would have swathed our globe in incandescent rock vapor, boiling the oceans dry and sterilizing the surface worldwide.
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Not surprisingly, great swathes of the religious audience voiced their displeasure.
Christianity Today
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It matches the latter's miles of gorgeous beaches, and tops them with mountains swathed in forests and an active volcano.
Times, Sunday Times
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Middle England can be expected to raise serious objections to a scheme that will cut across swaths of the countryside.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cara Duncan, from Aberdeen, has been swathed in bandages since she was three months old to stop her skin erupting in painful blisters from an allergy to everyday items.
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But already it is covered again with purple swaths of bell heather and little bright green birch trees two feet tall.
Times, Sunday Times
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At times, the various choruses were costumed in one large swath of cloth.
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Nuuk is rich with undertones, tidal washes, deep swathes of velvet mezzotint, patient soundings, submarinal echoes.
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He is almost reclusive in his pathological desire to avoid publicity, but he has hosted parties attended by a swath of A-list stars.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyway, the new bike arrived this morning, all swathed in cardboard and plastic wadding.
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She is a vision of sweeping strides and soft steps swathed in airy veils and supple furs.
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Then, in a remarkable burst of rail building energy, engineers began cutting straight swaths across the lay of the land.
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Two of the torches that illumined the battlements had been doused there, swathing the crenellations under a cloak of darkness.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
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She saw, too vividly, the blackened swathe cut through the trees, the burned wreckage.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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He pulled out his trusted wooden sword and cut a swath of wool from the sheep, exposing the flesh of the animal.
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Smith flashes a smile and scuffs his foot across a swath of browned grass where Greene and the other sprinters had vomited.
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Debbie Tucker Green's recent Royal Court play, Truth and Reconciliation – though nothing like as so skilfully carpentered as Dorfman's – covered a huge swathe of history to suggest that some crimes are so grievous they can never be forgiven.
Death and the Maiden – review
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Mr. Morris attributes this to several factors, including longer playing seasons introduced via union negotiations, higher expectations raised by widespread availability of note-perfect recorded music, and training in a broader swath of repertory in conservatories.
Regional Orchestras in the Spotlight
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Truss a few starlets into whalebone corsets and swathe them in yards of dimity.
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Why does it cut a swath through our anthropological differences and cultural idiosyncrasies?
Times, Sunday Times
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She swathed her enormous body in thin black fabrics.
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For the inaugural event, the dancers' lithe bodies were swathed in white.
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There's a large swathe of opinion in Britain that regards the EU as some foreign imposition designed to undermine the imperial glory that is Britain.
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The Michoud Assembly Facility east of New Orleans and the Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., both were located along the main swath of the storm's devastation.
Boing Boing: August 28, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Archives
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A workhorse of a machine was busy feeding a swath of yellow paper from one of these rolls, mechanically ruling the paper with calibrated pins dipped in blue ink.
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Huge swathes of rain forest are being cleared for farming and mining.
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After cutting, the swather leaves the cut hay in a long row so the rancher can use a baler to make hay bales.
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When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name.
Times, Sunday Times
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His head was swathed in bandages, his bruised features swollen out of all recognition.
Times, Sunday Times
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Building the tunnel would involve cutting a great swathe through the forest.
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The apprentice who had kneaded the bread had not noticed anything unusual either, and since his feet were swathed, the bryony would not have reached his skin to cause a rash.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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It was clear to him that this mummy had never been unswathed before.
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So might we see some Morningside matrons walking past The Canny Man pub swathed in 26 metres of silk with batwing sleeves?
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On leaving Cognac, I drive through swathes of Ugni Blanc vines, dotted with red-roofed farmhouses and villages of pale local stone, bathed in the intense light for which the Charente is famed.
A Slow Path to Perfection
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He did, however, think it strange for this young, uninvited guest to be swathed in a blanket-like shawl, or "patu," given the sweltering summer heat.
War in Context
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Thick, wooden platforms clonked against the tiled floor, her diminutive figure swathed in a breezy, brightly-colored floor-length dress.
Archive 2007-08-01
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I did not dress up in flouncy white dresses and veils, did not own bride dolls swathed on poufy white satin, did not walk my Barbie and Ken up imaginary aisles lined in flowing tulle or carry hairbrushes as bouquets as I practised the measured steps a bride is taught to take on her way to the alter where she will be joined with her husband-to-be.
Archive 2007-05-01
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Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin.
Times, Sunday Times
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As they got nearer, one of the doors swung open and a bent, hooded figure swathed in rags came shuffling out.
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The combine had cut a swathe around the edge of the field.
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The internet has cut a swath right through that.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sunlight scattered through the swath of leaves, dappling the grassy floor with intricate patterns of color and shadow.
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The elderly beaux still wear the showy embroidered waistcoats, knee breeches, lace ruffles and sparkling shoe buckles of the late eighteenth century, while the younger men, conforming to the newer style, have adopted close-fitting nankeen pantaloons tied above the ankle by a piece of ribbon, and wear long-tailed blue coats adorned with brass buttons, while their necks are swathed in voluminous white muslin cravats.
Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
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Two coralline pillars shoulder their way up from the deep and barge through throngs of fish to emerge swathed in surf, snarling in the face of the currents that dominate this coast.
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If you are not among the lovers of vulgarly vile funny filth, you may want to cut a wide swath around this release.
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The church is made up of a broad swath of perspectives, and all of us have something to learn from one another.
Christianity Today
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A cot swathed in draperies and blue ribbon stood isolated in a corner.
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In Germany huge swathes of the Black Forest died, leaving the stark outlines of leafless conifers in place of the formerly rich vegetation.
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Hackers in that case launched a virus that erased swathes of data from the company's computers and replaced it with an image of a burning American flag.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the painting Mark stands in a pulpit, preaching to a group of women swathed in white mantles.
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These people represent a broad/wide swathe of public opinion.
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The mass media provided the means to promote those brands: television and radio networks, magazines, and newspapers that reached vast swaths of the public simply and efficiently.
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Each was swathed in robes of black, and all carried the sceptre that befitted their station.
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Suspended from the ceiling just behind the white marble altar, the cross is backed by a swath of deep purple fabric.
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The views were spectacular: soaring hills, swathes of purple heather and a tiny burn bubbling along the bottom of the valley.
Times, Sunday Times
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He swathed his own bedroom in the stuff and used it for multiple clients' homes as well, earning him the title "the prince of gray flannel.
Highly Suitable Fabric
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On a thin-crust pizza, the Italian ham lies on top of basil tomato sauce and beneath salty Gaeta olives and swaths of mild asiago.
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Why does it cut a swath through our anthropological differences and cultural idiosyncrasies?
Times, Sunday Times
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You throw caution to the wind and amble aimlessly around fields bathing in inspirational pastels swaths that compel poets to compose poetry and Your inability to access the adumbral profundity of -
Acephalous
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This is rather odd, given that he has the reputation of cutting a swath through his leading ladies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Along the wall, they has cleared a swath as wide as a football field, shearing off row after row of houses.
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England controlled matters to choreograph the thrusts of their impressive three quarters, Mike Tindall and Perry, who repeatedly cut a swathe through the beleaguered Welsh lines.
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This allows the blade to swing in a greater arc, producing a wider swathe.
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At the farm sales, it was impossible not to rescue machines with names like the Nicolson swathe-turner and such things as enormous hay rakes originally designed to be drawn by horses, wooden bullock carts, or the kind of miniature tipping trailer known as a tumbril, one of the most useful things any farm could possess.
Wildwood
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Compared to swathers with conventional tines, twine tines guarantee optimum raking quality, even at high work speeds.
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Joe, you’ve already shown that you live in some kind of dreamworld where even though repubs control all branches of government and a broad swath of the mainstream media, Democrats are somehow to blame for the mess we’re in today.
Think Progress » Gore To Bush On Iraq: It’s Not About You
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Here, swaths of the album pass by clad in different shades of grey: hardcore punk, gabba, industrial.
MIA: Maya | CD Review
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I shall unswathe it entirely, "and Braddock was about to lay sacrilegious hands on the dead, when Cockatoo entered breathlessly.
The Green Mummy
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They struck grayest and ghostliest on a high balcony, where a woman's figure crouched, swathed in damp, trailing drapery, with silky, falling hair about a still face, and steadfast eyes that had burned just as steadfastly through the long hours gone by.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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He adds that, while the travel industry bubbles us in resorts, ‘Great swathes of the world are increasingly undervisited, misunderstood and uncelebrated.’
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Vast swathes of land are off-limits.
The Sun
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Politicians and regulators who are cutting a swathe through bank earnings know two things.
Times, Sunday Times
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Months in the planning, the Gin Flat fire behaved beautifully, devouring a thick carpet of needles and big swaths of brush.
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With a few basic adjustments to most modern swathers, a good windrow of canola can be formed.
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We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.
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One country I have increasingly championed is Portugal, which is emerging from a past dominated by the production of port to produce a swathe of wines from opulent reds in the Douro valley, to dry whites with a distinctive mineral core even further north in the Minho, to wines with a distinctly Portuguese character in the southern province of Alentejo.
Trawling for Bargains
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Tea cups tinkled in the drawing room next door and pink-faced women trying to wish their fat away padded through the hallways swathed in white towelling, on their way to the supple fingers of the waiting masseurs.
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If the owners have their way, swathes of Scotland will in effect be fenced off, with the public confined to paths and pre-determined routes.
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They wear a mixture of swathed and ragged traditional togas and cast-off Oxfam rags.
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An ancient Egyptian would not be recognisable as such without a swath of luxuriant, raven hair.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until now the ship had either been shown shrouded in mist or swathed in tubes to preserve her.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyway, the new bike arrived this morning, all swathed in cardboard and plastic wadding.
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The Canola Council of Canada suggests that the window to properly swath a crop is only 1-3 days. Even the best swathers have a problem doing a good job in tangled crops.
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Sweeping strides and soft steps swathed in airy veils and supple furs…
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Yet huge swathes of poverty, deprivation and overcrowding still persist.
Times, Sunday Times
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One thing hadn't been lost in the leap, and that was the memory of Al swathed in bandages.
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An ancient Egyptian would not be recognisable as such without a swath of luxuriant, raven hair.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fact is that on the streets of India, certainly by Western standards, most women appear to be draped, swathed and completely covered in fabric.
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This is rather odd, given that he has the reputation of cutting a swath through his leading ladies.
Times, Sunday Times
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While its western flanks are swathed in forestry plantations, the upper slopes of the hill are clear and because of its westerly position, offer some of the finest views in the area.
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He collected a swathe of international honours, awards and prizes along the way, not least the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology.
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The neatly cut swaths of the little man with the jimdandy mower came to
Greener Than You Think
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The bomb had left a swathe of the town centre in ruins.
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For example, the largest would have excavated a crater the size of the British Isles, boiled the oceans and swathed the planet with incandescent rock paper sterilizing the surface pretty thoroughly.
