1.   Its Third Avenue windows are filled with figures wearing feathered hair ornaments against a striking background of black crows and blackened tree branches and the tweet of bird song.

2.   Maybe they, or he, were out there watching us from behind the blackened trees.

3.   Square miles of prime hiking and riding land are a wasteland of cinders and blackened trees.

4.   Across the landscape stretched gaping areas of burned-out forest, with blackened trees stripped of their foliage by the flames.

5.   Beyond the other bank are clusters of blackened trees.

6.   Blackened trees stood as testimony to Israeli airstrikes near the Awali River Bridge, where Lebanese watched an army diver search the water Friday for unexploded missiles.

7.   The men worked hurriedly in a landscape of blackened trees and the carcasses of fish, lizards and rodents killed when the oil spilled across fields and ponds.