“FLATS” на українській мові

On and on out into the sands and the gravel flats and the bare sculpted stone, and each day the killer came back with hastily written reports and words of his own, telling her everything she should know before she arrived.

Across the flats of the tidal plains, kelp draped itself in giant mounds at the lowest water, stinking of ocean chemistry and alive with transient clouds of flies.

Pale sand sifted down from the dune wall onto the flats.

The tide had come in, lifting Mogawn free of the mud flats.

A coat of salt-tolerant grasses and spiky, semi-aquatic bushes covered over the flats as they drew nearer to land.

Five miles across the flats Mogawn occupied the centre of the vista, its castle a model atop stone luminous in the sun.

’The Samim itself may have been a story, but the saltmarsh flats where the Yalun Zarang and the Jokun came out of the mountains and hit the desert before they reached the sea were real enough.

He probably knew the desert as well as anyone who didn’t actually live there, and the sum of what he knew was that it was mostly made up of great big sand dunes with other bits scattered around like careless sprinkles on a hurriedly decorated cake: flats of gravel and of a milky-white power like crushed glass and a few stretches of hard red clay that the desert men claimed had once been lakes in the long-ago before the half-gods broke the world.