Austen's novels, for example, are littered with dry asides about the inconveniences borne by smart men who, "from some unaccountable bias in favor of beauty," fetter themselves to trivial women.
Cornwall (for example) is littered with old shafts and addits, and historically no-one was very good at keeping track of where they were.
Example: Shakespeare's plays are littered with archetype damsels in distress: Ophelia, Juliet, and Hermia all spring to mind.
The writers of the 1950s and 1960s may have been persecuted politically, but the last three decades are littered with examples of incisive authors who persecuted themselves.
Attempts to clean up the environment are littered with examples of the law of unintended consequences from the replacement in refrigerators of noxious ammonia with odourless (but ozone-destroying) CFCs, to the "common rail" technology that makes modern diesels as clean as they already are.
"Both codes are littered with examples of players that have made the transition and I look forward to working directly with Ben when he arrives.
Despite the acknowledgement that there remains a 'stubborn gap' between the rhetoric and reality of local climate policy and its implementation (Betsill and Bulkeley, 2007), urban landscapes are littered with examples of actions being taken under the banner of climate change.
Our own newspaper archives are littered with recent examples of how powerful politicians, agencies and individuals have acted against the public interest … almost always claiming at the time they were doing the right thing.
Dunson et al. (2003), Chen et al. (2011) and Gueorguieva (2005) wanted observed-cluster inference when "complete clusters" do not exist, for example, toxicology experiments where clusters are litters.
The last 10 years have been littered with examples of philanthropists reneging on promised billions.
