Rising Rock vanished in the distance behind him, obscured by bends in the road, by forest, and by the red dust boots and hooves and wheels raised.

Far beneath them they could just see the silver thread of a narrow river, while in the middle distance, partly obscured by a haze, there was the shimmering expanse of a large lake.

The others lay somewhere in the gray distance, obscured by the storm-or sunk.

By now I could see the rabbit in the distance, partially obscured by the blowing sand.

There was a pink glow now in the whiteness, like a fire in the distance, all but obscured by the inter- vening clouds of snow.

Life was reduced to two dimensions, existence pulled down to utter flatness, distances obscured by shimmering lines of cold heat rising from silver mirages.

To the east he could make out the dark shape of the Chinese carrier in the distance, much of its hull obscured by the curvature of the earth, only its superstructure visible.

My windows overlook rooftops, a street lined with too-green trees, and in the distance, mountains, partly obscured by Pacific fog.