The Garvaghy Road residents rejected Hills borough Castle, and the Orangemen turned down the Interpoint building in downtown Belfast.

The ship bounded through the Galaxy, its path a wide- spaced dotted line through the stars.

They are at the same time more easily read than figures or regularly spaced dots.

So in Battersea, perhaps we can look forward to a public space dotted with oligarchs' pearl-encrusted sofas?

Walkers ahead of us formed well- spaced dots of slow-moving colour leading to an impossibly remote summit, lost in cloud.

From the Grove to the river, the forest-trees had been cleared, leaving the open space dotted with the houses of the settlers.