1.   It has bushy cliffs on both sides that lean like hairy ghosts over the unknown waters.

2.   Her goal proved to be a tall, thin building, leaning like an amiable drunk, supported by its neighbours.

3.   At first our view of the river was blocked by wall-to-wall houseboats, while far-off cranes leaned like giraffes over half-finished apartment blocks.

4.   Baban Jhadav leaned forward like a medieval swordsman, both knees bent, peering intently into the darkness along the line of his wooden stave.

5.   In the town center, two red brick medieval towers lean like upset chessmen.

6.   Some leaned like concrete drunks against a neighboring structure or showed badly fractured columns and irreparable walls.