Inside covered green trucks parked discreetly near major intersections, soldiers dozed and read newspapers as they waited to quell disturbances that never materialized.

From the car, Sophie spotted the red saloon with the registration number that she recognised, parked discreetly up a cul-de-sac.

He left his car discreetly parked one street over from Jean Kirkpatrick's place on Palmetto Lane and, stripped to the night suit, made his way quietly between the neat stucco houses, across the alleyway, and over the fence into the Kirkpatrick rear yard.

He had a filthy Lada parked discreetly around the corner from Dolores, He told me to lie down in the back seat as we drove out of the city ("police" he explained).

No, because the jovial rustic whose wine you are sipping probably has two Mercedes-Benzes parked discreetly in his barn and a maison secondaire, a vacation place, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Deep moldings and high ceilings throughout furthered the illusion that the cottage was many generations older than our car parked discreetly in back.

Maps of Baghdad's back streets have been drawn up, reserves of dollars and Iraqi dinars laid in and four-wheel-drive vehicles parked discreetly with their fuel tanks full.

Painted in bright, bold colors wrapped around a sleeker, more solid silhouette and featuring more power, higher torque and an improved chassis, the cars made their cousins, parked discreetly off to one side of the exhibit, look like sparrows.

He went to the G.M. factory in rural Kentucky that was scheduled to build the Corvette and discreetly parked a mile and a half away, where no security guard was likely to see him.