The rain had dampened his hair again, and a strand lay like a black half moon on his forehead.

Her hair was thinner and greyer, a few strands of it lay on the sheet.

She lay still, arms spread wide; one strand of dark hair lay across her cheek like a line drawn in charcoal.

An inky strand of it had escaped the thong and lay across his cheek.

Fifty feet down the strand lay the abandoned canoe, which had washed ashore on the swells.

But strands of gray hair, brown skin, and ripped clothing lay, with scattered bone chips in two mounds.

To our right lay a strand of smooth, easily traversed sand.

A strand of black hair lay across his cheekbone.

The wind had mussed his hair so that a black strand lay upon his brow.

More strands lay like ropes on the deck, fanned out on both sides.