1.   At night, lights twinkle in distant villages across the valleys.

2.   This was the ugly eye sore confronting visitors as they drove into the centre of the village across the bridge over the Roogagh river.

3.   All across the city, and in villages across the countryside, there were teary reunions between brothers, mothers and sons, and commanders and soldiers.

4.   But it occurs in its most degraded form in the slums and poor villages across the Middle East -- in Cairo and Algiers and in Gaza.

5.   But the NATO-led troops are still confronted with sporadic killings and worsening confrontations between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in cities and villages across Kosovo.

6.   Calabash-style seafood is a family favorite in the Myrtle Beach area, deriving its name from the Calabash fishing village across the North Carolina border.

7.   He is now courting a Catholic girl from Raphoe, a village just across the border.

8.   Indeed, Israeli combat units were fanning out into rural towns and villages across the West Bank, even as fighting raged in key urban areas, Halutz said.

9.   In villages across Africa, storytelling has long been an integral part of daily life.

10.   In villages across Kosovo, houses were seen burning Wednesday, the result of naked vengeance on the part of ethnic Albanians, officials said.