The flat expanse of tall grasses bleached by the sun and the dry winter season was sectioned off by high chain-link fences and barbed wire.

Among them, there were a good few lapwings, occasionally getting up and wheeling across the flat expanse of wet meadow in their restless way.

Below lies a flat expanse of jungle, veined with thick, rivery spirals: untouched, unmapped and, to most of the outside world, utterly unknown.

Beyond a flat expanse of scrubland, scored by dry riverbeds and sinister with the threat of rattlesnakes, there waits another cliff.

Across the flat expanse of the pulled apart by winds strong enough to uproot trees and waters that rose above the roofs of the simple bamboo houses.