Mr. Manning told how, in a storm years ago, he quickly plowed his town's streets down to the bare pavement just as the weather was changing to freeing rain.

People lay sleeping in doorways or on the bare, cold pavement.

This was no place of dead stone and bare pavement, though thousands might walk its streets by day and believe so.

Felix wished he had not thought of bare pavement and easy traveling, even though he knew he could not possibly be responsible for what he saw.

As soon as I rounded a corner, the spores pulled back from my feet; once again, I was on bare pavement.

The only thing he can hear at first is an uneven spattering noise that wasn't there before, like water falling out of a half-open faucet onto bare pavement.

With the exception of bare pavement where others of the staff had parked and just left, everything was pure white, and colder, far colder than before.

Where that arch had presented itself there was bare pavement; no symbols, not even the vaguest, were discernible on the floor.

The dry cool wind of early winter was sweeping a dark line of dust across the bare pavement.

What lampglow fell dully on it showed bare pavement, cracked sidewalks, scraps of paper and plastic, shards of glass, empty cans, cigarette butts, refuse less describable.