Rambling

Usage examples of scattered.

But he is used to the forests and irregular hills north of Cyad itself-not the scattered farms and the grasslands of the east that are north of the Accursed Forest and the Great Canal that links the fertile lands between the rivers with Fyrad.

For this affrontery the villages have been burned and the ashes scattered, lest the sight of them displease you.

The area covered by the dot became a small delta of alluvium from one of the canyons with a few trees scattered across it.

There are extraordinary, unexplainable landmarks scattered across the face of this planet, astronomically aligned wonders, yet all pieces of a single, giant puzzle.

With intermittent desperation, they began to shoot over our barrage again, and the explosions of their rockets flashed at widely scattered points beyond.

The same bartender was behind the bar and mostly the same customers were scattered about the room, though this time around Bludgeon was absent.

The berries are attractive to small birds, who swallow them whole, and afterwards void the seeds, to germinate when thus scattered about.

Fungus still hung from his besoiled garments and his fine blond hair, and more was scattered on the floor, glowing dimly.

It may not be unpleasing to collect a few scattered instances relative to that subject without forgetting, however, that from the vanity of nations and the poverty of language, the vague appellation of city has been indifferently bestowed on Rome and upon Laurentum.

The outer garments of Jim Lockwoodand the coat of John Wilkes Boothall looking considerably the worse for wear, were scattered in various places around the room, some on a floor, some on one article of furniture or another.

Dun Lidjun pressed a bowtip against the floor, releasing the bowstring from the other tip with his thumb, then threw the bow toward the corner where the rest of the bow and arrows lay scattered.

In a loose mob, they spurred their ponies past the stymied cars and, brandishing their rifles above their heads, robes streaming in the wind like battle ensigns, they lunged up the steep bank into the open and galloped furiously on to the flank of the scattered Italian column.

Whenever I looked at him, I wanted to strangle him, so instead I looked around the courtroom, at the bailiff, the guards, at the bored reporters scattered in the otherwise empty seats, at the detectives sitting in the front row behind the prosecution table, Stone leaning back, arms stretched out, Breger hunched forward in weariness.

I do not call it a village or even an encampment, because it was only a wide glade in the forest, scattered with cooking-fire rings of blackened stones carelessly tossed together, and with sleeping furs spread over pallets stuffed with fir sprigs, and with various cookery implements and skins stretched on drying hoops and bits of harness, and with saying knives and brittling knives, and with the gnawed bones and other remains of past meals.

Coming over to pick up the scattered spoils, Brooke laughed as she made eye contact with Tif fany.