But all the Taylors were substantial men, and it spilled Donovan across the half- erected tent and left him blinking dizzily in a tangle of striped canvas.

Nowadays the seating consists primarily of open-air "Holiday" styled coaches covered with brightly striped canvas.

When the wind shifted, Ser Cleos helped the big wench run up the sail, a stiff triangle of striped red-and-blue canvas.

An elaborate outdoor pavilion had been set up with an awning cover of gaily striped canvas.

She stood beside a striped canvas stall that a pastry maker was erecting in anticipation of the day's custom.

When the pilots came out there was a butterfly resting on the brightly striped canvas of a deckchair.

The awnings here were all a uniform orange and white striped canvas arranged in hexagonal cones with centre poles swamped by eaglevine.

In the great tent of striped canvas many days' march and sail to the north, the conference was less happy.

That feeling extended to some of Mr. Heron's most successful paintings, including a luminous series of horizontally striped canvases - on view in the Tate show - from 1956-57.

Dogs were barking, children running, mothers calling: families down on the sands staking out tribal encampments with windbreaks of striped canvas.