The fax machine in the corner was chirping away, spewing out yards of messages; two uniformed men were taking calls and another phone was ringing on an unoccupied desk.
Shuddering, Peter walked past Betty Brant (who was still on the phone, exasperatedly telling good old Flash that she didn't have time for him now), and made his way to a row of unoccupied desks adjacent to the locked office supplies closet.
Dan pushed through the empty office suite, ceiling lights flicking on as he entered each area and off as he breezed past, paying scant attention to the unoccupied desks and blank holowindows.
The space between was mostly vacant; a few unoccupied desks and idle business machines scattered about.
The Master led them to one of the unoccupied desks, a low flat table full of incomprehensible equipment.
With a final longing glance in the direction of Paula's unoccupied desk, he departed before I could ask who or what a Whirligig might be.
We'd all found swivel chairs from unoccupied desks, and everyone had a ceramic coffee mug in his or her hand.
But there were unoccupied desks in the structures group and a churchlike quiet in the metals group and in the adjoining metallurgical laboratory.
There's a phone in this room sitting on an unoccupied desk.
Lupo, the relief bartender, sat alone by an unoccupied desk.