Within hours, as piles of novels whose authors' surnames began with the letters E through L littered the floor, my teenage daughters mutinied.

He landed silently, his boots sliding on the pile of disturbed documents now littering what was left of the tile floor.

Now, piles of smoking circuit boards and twists of blackened fiber-optic cable littered the deck.

A pile of papers littered Verna's desk, and her computer screen was lit, but she seemed to be idly gazing out the window.

Paint chips and piles of dust littered the floors.

No piles of latex strips still littered with pieces of long, blond hair.

A pile of telegrams, letters and phone messages littered the top of his desk on the third floor of the restaurant.

Books and piles of magazines and newspapers littered the floor.

But piles of Allegiance dead littered the parking lot as well, and many of their vehicles blazed, still exploding as the gas tanks ruptured.

Pile after pile of dead crickets littered the fields.