In the central clearing stood the main body of the mob, milling aimlessly and looking rather pathetic.

Instantly, the 6-14 guard officers directed them, quite as though they had been Mauns, to go to the central clearing.

It was not at all like the illustrations in Colin's book, buildings around a central clearing.

No more than a narrow slice of the central clearing was visible.

In the central clearing, the men from the Enterprise stood waiting.

They skirted the central clearing and its tower and headed for the hut.

I stood there in the central clearing, too panicked to move.

They went down into the central clearing.

I led the way to the central clearing where the stone of sacrifice waited.

They didn't take him to his own longhouse, but to a small hut that stood at the far end of the central clearing.