21.  For photographer Schulke, the reassembled mammoth is a personal vindication, the culmination of the many hours spent under dark waters three decades ago.

22.  He rolled off the raft and into the dark waters of the Maranon River.

23.  If the soul escapes this fate, a priest ritually severs it from the body so it can live in the dark waters for a year and a day.

24.  In the dark water I could see the shadows of great salmon, their destiny fulfilled, adrift now in the long continuum of their generations.

25.  In the dark waters offshore, the ships of a gathering flotilla waited to take UN troops away and leave Somalis to settle their own affairs.

26.  Inside, the illusion of elegance disappears in hallways with buckled floors and ceilings where the tiles bulge outward and are ringed with dark water stains.

27.  Instead, he and his guests ended up clinging to life vests in the dark waters of the East River.

28.  It was meant to imitate the insects that drifted on the dark water like tan husks of wheat.

29.  Laughter rang from the restaurant patios and second-story terraces that loomed like bluffs above the dark water.

30.  On the bay, bathing-suit-clad couples bounce on a trampoline afloat in the dark blue water and pelicans clamor about the boats at the dock.