33 collocations for litter

She rose hastily and obeyed; a rain of silver coins fell, then gold, then banknotes, littering the floor.

Piero Salin stood in the doorway as he glanced up from the drawings that littered his tablethe dark oak table which had seemed a centre of cheer to Girolamo, when, in this very chamber, his child had made a radiance for him in which the lines of his life shone large and satisfying.

The French had burned down all the buildings, but the half-finished trenches could yet be seen, and the logs which were to have made the breastwork still littered the ground.

Its front wall littered the street and its interior was a jumble of worthlessness.

It seems to me that the flaw in this scheme of yours, Jeeves, is that it's going to litter the garden with mangled corpses.

The shells were falling fairly thick on the Boulevard de Leopold; every two or three hundred yards a house was partially destroyed; bricks and glass littered the pavement, and occasionally, every quarter of a mile or so, I saw a figure skulking along under the eaves of a building, crouching and ducking in time to the nasty music of the shells.

Mattresses and bandages littered the deserted room, and an electric chandelier was still burning.

At her instigation Shaw had put up a shed for his machinery, which formerly had littered the yard, and put his wood in even piles.

he added, disconsolately "the one who positively littered up the house with young men, and sang idiotic jingles to them at all hours of the night about the Bailey family and the correct way to spell chicken?

Still, a broken feather is no good to anybody, and, as I have told you any number of times, I cannot have trash littering up my kitchen.

These in time would amount to a quantity worth consideration, but they are usually left, first to litter the land, and secondly to be destroyed by rain and passengers.

How many shells, whorl within whorl, Litter the marges of the sphere With wrack of unregarded pearl, To shape that little thing your ear: Creation, just to make one girl, Hath travailed with exceeding fear.

" As we moved on I saw that the yellow flowers of the purau, dried red by the sun,poultices for natives' bruises,and candlenuts in heaps,torches ready to hand,littered the moss.

And a' the time, mind you, his ain front yard would be full o' weeds, and the grass no cut, and papers and litter o' a' sorts aboot.

But nowwhen if I sold them, life and limb, There's not a sow would litter one pig less Than when men called her mine.

"How many times have I told you that I will not have parcels left about, littering the whole place?

It is a most cheering omen that this little book of Pastor Wagner's is falling into so many hands and littering its ingenuous and persuasive plea before so many minds and in so many homes.

Dogs barked; pet names were squealed; old men waved their staffs; children clung to the waggons and whooped, and when the cortège finally turned into the hospital compound and I cantered back to the lines I wondered what a London bobby would have made of the heterogeneous traffic that littered the Darrapore Road.

Faith, but the County Cork would suit me completely; a roomy loose-box wid straw litter an' a leak-proof roof.

The dishes from the invalid's lunch-tray littered the sink.

A man shall perhaps rush by and trample down plants as high as his head, and cannot be said to know that they exist, though he may have cut many tons of them, littered his stables with them, and fed them to his cattle for years.

Who took his place I never knew, but a stout fighter the lad was, wielding his cutlass viciously, so that we held them, with dead men littering every step to the cabin deck.

Some people pluck them wantonly, and then fling them away and litter the garden walks with them.

Still, we are nowadays all too apt to think that growth is inevitable and progress in the nature of things; the Wonderful Century, as Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace called the nineteenth, has made us perhaps over-confident and forgetful of the ruins of great cities and confident prides of the past that litter the world, and here I will write about the other alternative, of the progressive process "hitting something," and smashing.

And a' the time, mind you, his ain front yard would be full o' weeds, and the grass no cut, and papers and litter o' a' sorts aboot.

33 collocations for  litter