It is not so long ago, really, since pianists or violinists could expect a heavy sprinkling of such amateurs in their audiences, people who not only heard the music but felt it in their fingers.

There was a lot of time spent exchanging stories and sharing memories among the ex-prisoners, sessions subtly guided, she realized shortly, by the heavy sprinkling of psych officers the Escobarans had sent with the ship.

While most shoppers on a recent morning were Gabonese, there was a heavy sprinkling of Europeans.

Her cream satin gown was draped with a netting of pale gold in which was caught a heavy sprinkling of diamonds.

On average, 4 to 6 eggs are laid, the egg shells having a pale bluish color with a heavy sprinkling of blackish spots and some dark, irregular lines.

From the moment the hourly bombardment ended, the streets filled with the trapped inhabitants-men, women, and children-along with a heavy sprinkling of uniformed rebels.

But there is also a heavy sprinkling of engineers, physicians, lawyers, managers and teachers - city people who are unaccustomed to combat and even less to the harsh vagaries of the mountains that separate Iraq from Turkey.

There were Guhayna Arabs from the Sudan, thickset Caucasian Mongols, and a heavy sprinkling of Sinkiang Chinese.

The drink seemed to be a sort of variant of sherry flip, with a heavy sprinkling of nutmeg.