21.   All would be mixed into an intriguing village of spaces, courtyards and terraces that could also provide an oasis from the urban environment.

22.   Along with Conrad Strohl, their son-in-law who is the restaurant manager, they have reconstituted their family in the village of the tea room.

23.   Along the road is Zvekovica, a village of broken buildings.

24.   Among the Kaninkon, though, the village is called Gakyop, or village of rich grass.

25.   An easy hike of about an hour or two through the canyon leads to Kota Gadang, a village of silversmiths.

26.   Among the shimmering ponds and rice fields of Southeast Asia and in ancient villages of China, Muslim mosques have for centuries reflected the local cultures.

27.   And something about it haunted her, drew her to the generations of young African women who are so ceremoniously mutilated in far-flung villages of the world.

28.   And their clean, well-lighted place is often a village of laughter.

29.   As a first-generation urbanite myself, I keep returning to the Kerala villages of my parents, in my life as in my writing.

30.   As a soldier, Waylan was part of a company in Vietnam that senselessly massacred a village of civilians.