1.   A little later she lay in bed beside her snoring husband, staring into the darkness.

2.   Alec turned on his back and stared into the darkness.

3.   Ezra leaned against the sink and stared off into the middle distance.

4.   Halting in front of the mirror in the front room, the mirror that he had forced her to stare into, she winced.

5.   Hands thrust inside his jacket pockets, Kuhlmann went over to the window and stared down into the courtyard again.

6.   He often stopped reading or writing to stare into the distance, dreaming perhaps of some ambitious plan.

7.   He sat cross-legged on the ground and stared into the black grid on the front of the radio.

8.   He stared into her pale furious face for a long time.

9.   He stared into the green darkness behind them.