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It seemed they were coming from almost every direction, as searchlights raked the sky and skeins of orange tracer fire rose from air defence units stationed around the city.

They crawled on their hands and knees as regime soldiers raked their street with machine-gun fire.

The field was raked, chalked and ready for baseball.

Strolling in bright sunshine across the immaculately raked gravel of Paris's Tuileries gardens, Barbara and Rick Wilson from Dallas, Oregon, were not exactly in disguise.

As they drove farther into the mountains, the man to Juan’s right raked the knife across his cheek.