1.   A fist fight followed, with much shouting and squabbling, until the ragged man succeeded in driving up to the door.

2.   A ragged man with an automatic rifle kicked down their wooden door.

3.   One ragged man sidled up to him with a sad story and an outstretched palm.

4.   The ragged men and women shuffle up to the wooden doors as if from nowhere, dressed in thrift-store parkas and old wool caps.

5.   There was a ragged man kneeling in the snow and juggling with three knives.