21.   It blooms all summer, and a little patch of it is a fine place to visit by flashlight, looking for the night-feeding hawk moth.

22.   Like the headlight of a distant, oncoming car, this little patch of light will slowly brighten and sharpen over the eons.

23.   My scrubby little patch of lawn looks greener already.

24.   The result was a remarkable leveling effect, with the most elaborate flower and vegetable gardens shriveling to the point of being indistinguishable from our unkempt little patch.

25.   To get by, her mother grows her own vegetables in her little patch of a garden, and she barters at a trading hall in the area.

26.   We spot the first snow on the ground north of Waterville, sparse little patches of crusty white on the brown farm fields.

27.   But for now, in his little patch of the city, Hisa is still king of the road.

28.   This pretty little patch of Alsace now stands as the symbol of a fracture tugging at the fiber of France.