Next to this was a dull globe of solid glass with pink-tipped matches in a little well in the middle.

They glistened in the light of the dull, fly-specked globe like eddies in deep water.

If Tripoli was anything to judge by, the victory of all these liberation movements would make for a very dull globe.

Spinner, that dull globe is Proxima Centauri: the nearest star to the Sun, less than four light-years out.

His face was like a dull yellow globe in the semidarkness coming to the room.

He scowled upwards through spiked branches, and observed that a bite was taken from Freyr by the dull globe that had slowly outpaced it through the sky.

The great dull globe of the sun fell behind him; the days became wan and the nights bitter, and at last the crags of Fer Aquila showed as a tracing on the north horizon.