1.   Creatures with large beaklike noses, feathery tails and vividly ornamented Victorian jackets strut through the town square and on the exposed metal skeleton of a domed building.

2.   Dozens of cars and trucks had been destroyed in the fires, their metal skeletons littering the parking lots.

3.   It is this metal skeleton that gives vinyl windows their ability to resist warping.

4.   The tower is an orange-and-white metal skeleton, wide at the base and narrowing as it rises.

5.   Only the scorched metal skeleton remained of the bus.

6.   John Strong, a Republican from West Des Moines, held in his right hand the metal skeleton of a blue umbrella, stripped of its fabric.

7.   Video footage of the freight shuttle that caught fire showed burned-out hulks of trucks in the metal skeleton that carried them.

8.   Video footage of the freight shuttle that caught fire Monday night showed burned-out hulks of trucks in the metal skeleton that carried them.