The sky was utterly blue overhead; sunlight spilled on the wide green sweep of land; wind brought him the faint crystal laughter of a bellbird.

Clinton took her around the first bend, following the deep green sweep of the channel between the paler sandbanks.

Clinton and his officers stared silently at the wide deserted sweep of the Rio Save, green and smooth from bank to mangrove-clad bank.

He could manage hardly more than a whisper as he stared at the statue off across the green sweep of lawns.

If any landscape lives up to its airbrushed, publicity-shot alter ego, it is the jagged, green sweep of the Drakensberg.

They sat and drank, and looked out at the black landscape, or the green sweep of the little radar screen.

Last Friday it was a vision of serenity and order, with the Capitol dome pressed against a cloud-tumbled winter sky over the broad green sweep of the Mall.

Flickering pictures painted in the sky the water and the trees and the long green sweep of grass that Mars had not known for countless centuries.

He loved to look out from its roof at the great, green sweep down towards the coast.

Looking across the fields to the little beck, with the heronry beyond and the green sweep of the moors rising above, he drew a deep breath of satisfaction.