Once in a while, a distant patch of hillside flared into a silver-yellow that was almost green, then vanished.

The distant patch of light quivered and shook.

Valentine, smelling blood, his stomach hurting as though he'd been mule-kicked, saw a distant patch of flame; a house burning over by the river.

Kerrick joined him, squinting at the distant green patch on the shoreline, waiting until he was absolutely sure.

"You have fulfilled your promise," Raven told him, but his eyes were fixed on that distant patch of white.

Half an hour before La Pucelle had been a distant patch of canvas.

A grey eagle was circling lazily over a distant blue-hazed patch of forest.

A distant patch of yellow blossoms caught her eye.

When his subordinate had departed, he slithered out to the balcony and gazed at the distant patch of orange stars.

He pointed toward a distant patch of turbulent, rippling sky.