21.   In the sleepy coastal village of Esperanza, leather-skinned fishermen sit beneath a shade tree, swapping tales of the big ones that got away.

22.   In the half-light, sitting beneath a massive painting of the British surrender at Yorktown, the room begins to seem the sum of all human aspiration.

23.   In the spacious bathroom, shielded from the bedroom by an interior wall, a bidet sat beneath a mola of a fire-breathing dragon.

24.   It brings Welch comfort now to sit beneath it and listen to the leaves rustle.

25.   Earlier on Monday, Viesturs sat beneath a pastel, vaguely cubist mural in a boutique coffee beanery near Gramercy Park.

26.   Large pots with plants and a black Mexican-style iron table that sits beneath a large mirror break the span of space.

27.   Less exalted women can be seen by the roadside on Bequia, sitting beneath a thatch canopy, hand-chipping stone into pebbles for construction.

28.   Mikhailov sat beneath a portrait of Igor V. Kurchatov, the father of the Soviet nuclear weapons program.

29.   One sits beneath a light, reading The History of the World.

30.   She was sitting alone beneath balloons at her table after her friends hit the dance floor when Krumsiek asked her to dance.