Hundreds of dead birds often covered the surface of the sea.

One leaf contained writing which only covered the surface at intervals.

Symbols covered the surface, executed, I suspected, with black Magic Marker.

The sun shone out warmly and covered the surface of the river with gold.

The latter, in some parts, covered the surface with a brushwood only a few inches high.

The ice had melted there to such an extent that only a thin glaze covered the surface.

A single contiguous continent covered the surface.

A linen lace tablecloth covered the surface.

Next instant it lay on the floor, its fragments scarcely distinguishable from what had already covered the surface.

A shaky hand covered the surface.

She'd covered the surface of the table with books and papers, and was pecking at a portable electric typewriter.

Marked by streaks of bright red running longitudinally from pole to pole, dark lines like cracks covered the surface.

The breeze was whitened with clouds of flour, and the white meal covered the surface of the ocean for yards around.

After a period of prodigious length, the temperature again rose, and the glaciers that had so extensively covered the surface receded.

Instantly a sheet of blue lightning covered the surface, a shimmering electric dance, and the visceral thud of the power rocked the bridge.

Heat and haze had swallowed up the blue for weeks, but now it covered the surface of the rivers and dominated the mountainsides.