51.   Despite its growing solidarity, the opposition is hobbled by its lack of a central figure with widespread popularity.

52.   Desperate and despondent, he was sitting beneath the pirul tree when a bearded figure with a halo appeared to him, explaining his calling as a healer.

53.   Davie, now in his fourth year, is far from a popular figure with the Domers.

54.   Each is a regular polygon, a triangle or square or pentagon or figures with too many sides to count.

55.   Dreverhaven is a nightmarish phantom, a huge, shadowy figure with hatchet face, heavy black coat and broad-brimmed hat that casts his features in shadow.

56.   Each of its small bronze neighbors is heading somewhere else, toward increasingly three-dimensional, realistic birds and a human figure with a birdlike face.

57.   Even if they see a figure with a long gun and scope sights in a battle-damaged ghost of a building, they may not shoot.

58.   First he is tormented by a stern schoolteacher, an ominous figure with the pages of a book for hair and a giant finger poised in a perpetual point.

59.   Garrincha was a slight figure with a malformed leg because of polio, and had enough indigenous blood in his veins to make some people uncomfortable.

60.   GM officials declined to share that figure with the media.