"You get to do little vignettes, like two-minute improvisations," she said.

The offer was accepted with alacrity and Harry has been writing these little vignettes for the paper ever since.

Another calmer voice said: "Watch your positions, please, we may have to end up matching this little vignette.

Angie - Your mother and grandmother might like a little vignette.

"We'd fill the time with little vignettes," Greenburg said.

The little vignettes in the display were usually Margo's domain, but Laura had designed this one.

Just these little vignettes we're not even aware of.'

The terror they feel is shown in little vignettes of family life.

There is a little vignette of Napoleon's men in captivity.

The hourly gunfights were little vignettes of the wild west, complete with people shot off roofs.