Artillery set a four-story house in Aracinovo on fire, blanketing the eastern part of the village with heavy gray smoke.

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Despite our growing up among the gray, smoke-belching factories of northern New Jersey, you somehow grasped the beauty and stillness of nature.

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It was replaced by a gray lull, all smoke and pig iron.

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There was smoke and a terrible warmth, a gray sun rising and falling in what seemed like a matter of minutes, and the tiger, frenzied, dry-tongued, ran back and forth along the span of rusted bars.

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