Eventually he spotted a ragged patch of blue.

It was a ragged patch over a hundred kilometres wide, its shape varying according to currents and wind.

Other ships were airing bedding in ragged white patches along the life lines.

Its surface was broken by the dark, ragged patches of cave mouths.

Grass grew here in ragged patches between bones of rocks that pierced the earth.

Now this blue was showing ragged patches of white.

By then the wind had begun to die and I could see occasional ragged patches of blue above me.

Fur grew on them in ragged patches, with naked skin between.

Outside, ragged black patches obscured his vision of the stars.

Nobody washes a step and a ragged patch beside it.