Very little tailings remained, no tools lay scattered about.

Paper and small tools lay scattered over the incorruptible floor, or floated in the equilibrium layer.

Pieces of hide and working tools lay all about.

But there were no farmers in the fields, and tools lay scattered about, as if they had been discarded hurriedly.

Baskets and tools lay next to them, dropped just before their owners themselves fell.

The tools of his trade lay scattered around him.

Among the bones lay a single tool, a stone hand ax carefully shaped on both sides.

The tools he'd left earlier had been removed, lay scattered about.

Some tools lay about and some pieces of wood.

When Charles Roberts snapped, the tools lay ready to hand.