Sheets of paper with writing on them hung on clotheslines and were strewed about, carried as a burden or read morosely.
The main room, which doubles as her bedroom and living room, is cluttered with odds and ends, chewed-up mouse toys, clothing haphazardly strewed about and awkwardly placed furniture.
The stadium that gave AstroTurf its name now had some of the stuff rolled up and strewed about, waiting for an insurance company's inspection after an electrical fire caused water damage.
Pulling into the parking lot, Mr. Joslin saw Eileen Fisher scarves strewed about in the mud.
Books and prayer rugs are strewed about, and a table is laden with sweet Turkish tea and dates.
Condoms are often strewed about the rustic bridges that cross the Ramble's streams, and some female bird-watchers report that they have sporadically glimpsed flashers, along with the flycatchers, grosbeaks and warblers that they have come to observe.
Even though there was broken ice strewed about on the slope, it was not clear whether all of it was fresh or the result of previous falls, he said.
What he saw there — books piled haphazardly throughout and empty shelves, soda cans and garbage strewed about — immediately went into print, and that prompted a petition signed by hundreds of Italian intellectuals questioning Mr. De Caro's appointment as director.
The entrance of the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights feels like a well-worn living room, with faded and thinning green carpets, dark wooden benches from a different era and battered backpacks bulging with textbooks strewed about the hallway.
And it has hats all over the place, to the point of creating curiosity over what Mr. Cotterill's second proposed Jimm Juree book — "Granddad, There's a Head on the Beach" — will strew about.
Not only did he bring me and my four siblings Smarties, but his presence guaranteed that we could get away with almost anything; our father was rarely as thrilled as when they sat talking late into the night, with dozens of law books strewed about the living room floor.
