A slender silver something, its nose arcing down from a rocket position to rest on the tawny sands of the playground.

It was upside down near the water, its nose dug into the tawny sand as glistening waves lapped against the hood.

With dusk descending, she was a lone figure framed against tawny sand, darkening water.

As the marines touched down in the desert this morning, clouds of fine, tawny sand billowed around their helicopters.

TheAhura glided toward the spill of tawny sand at the island's left end.

A cloud of - tawny sand blew across the road, turning it into a momen-tary mirage.

Below, pines were giving way to tawny sand.

A dim buried image came to him, of a far grander pyramid striking up from tawny sands, piercing a pale blue sky.

There were patches of every tint that mineral coloring could produce, and vast stretches of tawny sand.

A thin, dark line of mangrove trees had replaced the tawny sands.