He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

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The impact sites show that the spacecraft kicked up fields of dark debris as they slammed into the lunar soil.

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Perhaps the reason is that those who toiled all day in the fields became dark while the aristocratic elite, protected from the sun, remained pristine white.

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The Santa Ana winds fanned the blaze and blew clouds of dark smoke over homes and strawberry fields to the south.

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But there is a dark shadow across these promising new fields.

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Jamie Starkey was shot by a lone male, in dark clothing, who ran off towards the playing fields after the "calculated shooting", police said.

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We all shouted, and the happiness at having found them again was already fraught with the pain of having lost them now forever, as the moon rising in the dark sky sent out only the reflections of the sun on its lakes and fields.

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The best part of the day was getting up at dawn and going down to the cool gray kitchen, the dark garden waiting at the door like some curious beast strayed in from the fields, a casual attentiveness in the coming light that seemed ready to include me, as it did everything else, in a soft, foreign stillness.

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Their discovery was mostly chance (few were seen in the act of falling) but their dark forms mean they will have caught the eye of meteorite hunters who scour desert sands and polar ice fields for rare rocks that can trade for tens of thousands of dollars.

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