The plane was now an incomplete and twisted skeleton, licked through by flames.

It was a twisted skeleton, bare and desolate, its branches reaching out like claws.

Across the bay, out of Joe Ben's sight, lie the dead piers of the upper bay, twisted skeletons being sucked silently into the river.

Each rib was made of curved and twisted skeletons of children, and its pelvis was a white basin of scores of smaller pelvises.

Elric and Shaarilla understood him when they saw the unnaturally twisted skeleton which lay at the bottom of the boat.

The trees nearest the house had also been engulfed by the fire, their twisted skeletons stark against the view of the sea and the islands beyond.

This morning, emergency crews picked through a charnel house of bodies, many of small children, piled among the twisted skeletons of metal chairs.

Boots, purses, toothbrushes and other personal artefacts lay amongst the twisted skeletons at Pheasant Wood, offering partial clues about the men's identities.

But this one was centuries old, just a twisted skeleton.

A land once green with pastures became a barren desert broken only by the twisted skeletons of trees.