1.   Ahead lay a steep, narrow valley and a village, diminutive at this distance, its buildings clustered round a harbour.

2.   Marie had stepped off the platform and into the salon and people were clustering round her, offering congratulations.

3.   The massive corrugated-iron sheds towered above the mean houses clustering round them.

4.   Their seven children, carved in high relief in diminishing size according to age, clustered round their feet like rabbits.

5.   They must have been the Iron Age equivalent of the mediaeval castle with the village and everything clustered round.

6.   Voices raised with excitement came from a fourth group, clustered round the sink in the corner of the room.

7.   Hundreds of small boats clustered round the yacht as she sailed into Southampton docks.

8.   She passed through the doorway, her eyes raking through the little knot of people clustered round it.

9.   Everyone clustered round them, calling greetings.