Suzanne Jensen, 49, lives directly across the tree-lined street, its cheery landscape colored with azaleas and trim lawns.

Outside, the sea whispered softly on an invisible beach and the moonlight splashed the black shadows of palms across trim lawns.

The trim lawn, in spite of his zealous efforts, was constantly littered with toys.

A small, well-dressed crowd had gathered beside him, at the edge of a trim lawn that Locke recognized as the duelling green.

Sober mansions and trim lawns lined the wide streets.

The decaying dwelling may be surrounded by neat homes with trim lawns, painted gutters and clean picture windows.

Many of the town's clapboard and stone houses had home-made "Bradley for President" signs on their trim lawns.

She drove down the neat, shady street appreciating the trim lawns, flower gardens and dogs barking in the yards.

A body clad in singlet and trousers flat on its face in the middle of a trim lawn.

The house was all pink stone and white marble, four towering stories of it that took up more than an acre of the trim green lawn.