Blackgult sat huddled nearby, rocking slightly in seeming oblivious-ness.

A company of young recruits was huddling nearby, all of them eighteen-year old youths who for the last hour had been glancing nervously around them and behind; mostly behind.

"I served honorably for the past 13 years," he said softly as other prisoners (the already-convicted in orange, mere suspects still in blue) huddled with their families nearby.

As officers sift through the ashes for evidence, the man and his colleagues huddle nearby, shaking their heads in disbelief.

Two women huddled nearby.

Two streetcars sat abandoned in the center of a cluttered plaza while a dozen families huddled nearby under sagging canvas.

A dozen other sleepless souls huddled nearby at a bonfire late into the night, trying to find humor in the earthquake and the desperate situations it caused.

He pointed to a venture capitalist huddled nearby.

Mr. Darden asked Mr. Simpson as Mr. Rubin measured his hand, with lawyers for both sides huddling nearby.

Freshly hired reporters were typing away on a recent morning, sitting before shiny blue-and-red computers, as editors huddled nearby.