Their expressions differed; only the nervous paging through tattered magazines seemed to bind them together.

I took a seat in the waiting room, which was spare and reasonably pleasant: pale green carpet, fake plants, and piles of tattered magazines.

Here, to one side of the door, a man leaned against the wall looking at a tattered girlie magazine, his rifle propped beside him.

The waiting room was done in bright, solid colors that gashed her eyes A few people sat around looking at tattered magazines or empty space.

A few of the others looked around briefly and then back at their own tattered magazines.

His only companions were tattered magazines he found in the trash, and he taught himself to read them.

Small towns were for doing laundry while flipping through tattered magazines and reading up on President Clinton's forthcoming impeachment trial.

Spider is studying a tattered military magazine and chewing vigorously, but he may be watching me.

"Why, there's parts of a whole bunch of these cars all over around here-" he cried, fluttering the tattered magazine at Mark.

Picking up a tattered magazine, Kristin tried to divert her mind.