1.   Water trickled from the brown earth near the roots of the bush and traced a dark line through the tall grass.

2.   There was no one in the glare of the sun in the village street, and the brown earth shone yellow and the dogs and chickens sought the shade.

3.   Aerial views show large patches of landscape as barren as a western desert, with parched brown earth eroding into nearby lakes and streams.

4.   Instead all he has is sun-scorched brown earth.

5.   Julia, Keith and Daniel occasionally stare blankly out the large windows at the endless brown earth.

6.   Just beyond the truck scales and offices, the property slopes gradually down to the reddish brown earth of disposal areas.

7.   Over the first week, the scenery changed from subtropical vegetation to brown earth that lay barren in the Himalayan rain shadow.

8.   Residents constantly track the fine brown earth into their homes, cars and businesses.

9.   The autumn sun beat down on the rows of sandy brown earth that Gerald Crowley had been tending since dawn.

10.   The smell of human corpses hung above the turned-up brown earth.