Pieces of scenery

Usage examples of flats.

Life was everywhere scant on Kesrith, with its alkali flats, its dead ranges, its few and shallow seas.

Out on the flats a geyser spouted: Elu, one of the dangerous random ones, that kept no schedule.

It was possible to recognize each of the geysers of the flats by its characteristic pattern and location.

Hulagh settled uneasily into his cushions in the rear of the landsled and saw it grow nearer: built of the soil of the mineral flats, cemented and dull-surfaced, it was of a color with the earth, but startling to the eye and forbiddingly sterile in its outlines.

On either side lay a fatal plunge to the thin crusts of the flats, volcanic and constantly steaming at one or another vent.

He had to draw a weaving course around hot zones, approaching the lowest part of the flats, that near the seashore and the water plant.

In the days before the edun stood, they had watered here below: the Dus plain, the lowland flats were called.

They went well onto the flats, where neither regul nor regul vehicles could go, into the sulphuric steam of geysers that veiled them from sight.

Lights swept the flats and lit plumes of steam, fruitlessly seeking movement.

Niun considered the flats before them, reckoning already what might have been done to familiar ground by the bombardment: what obstacles might have been created on the unstable land, where they might next find securest shelter if the regul swept back sooner than anticipated.

When they began to murmur together in great confusion, he directed the sled through them and toured the ground floor in leisurely fashion, with the air vibrating with the attack out on the flats and the building vibrating to the shocks.

He took his time, and found nothing but pleasure in the night, under the larger of Kesrith’s moons, with the air chill and the stars glittering, and far, far across the flats, lights illumined the geysers that spouted almost constantly.

Sencaste said that even that void would fill, ultimately, the sands off the high flats drifting as they did in sandfalls and curtains off the windy edges, to the far, hazy depths.

If the property does come on the market, and we're able to afford them, Crowther also recommends that we only issue ten-year leases in future, and try to place any empty flats with staff from embassies or foreign visitors, who never make any fuss about having to move at a moment's notice.

Trentham's large block of unoccupied flats became more obvious for all to see as each day went by.