21.   On hearing this, the king gave orders for the fields around his castle to be planted with almond trees for as far as the eye could see.

22.   As his eyes slowly became accustomed to the half-light, he began to make out row upon row of brown tents stretching as far as the eye could see.

23.   As far as the eye could see was desert and the only break in the horizon was the pitiful silhouette of a few mud shelters.

24.   An astute foreign eye saw it clearly.

25.   And someone had lit a fire that burned the fields as far as the eye could see, forcing people to run in all directions.

26.   And the eye can see pretty far from the top of the Citrus Tower, where owner Greg Homan has an office just below the observation deck.

27.   As far as the eye can see, black dots pepper the grassy, waterlogged marsh.

28.   As far as the eye can see, the waters of the normally brilliant, blue-green Laguna Madre are stained a dull brown.

29.   As happens with anyone, her eyes saw what her mind expected when she first arrived home.

30.   As far as the eye can see in a vacant section of this black township, small white stones mark off thousands of future plots.