Fulmire gestured over the books and documents spread across his desk.

Viber waved a hand and went back to leafing through one of the thick medical books spread across his desk.

He wrote approximately 230, which he published in sixteen separate books spread across a half-century, from 1558 to the final posthumous collection in 1608.

Sun slanted through the high windows of the great library in the cathedral of Cologne, to fall on the open pages of several books spread across the massive lectern.

He wrote in a small, neat, but cramped hand, pausing now and then to refer to one or other of the books and papers spread on his desk.

Fresh reports of the feeding frenzy for books spread through the industry every week: $800,000 for a novel by Salman Rushdie.

Only a few students were lolling on the grass outside, backpacks and books spread around them.

On the other side of the room, Brenden P. Leydon, 29, sat alone, his briefcase on the floor, a few papers and books spread before him.

Liza looked again at the spill from the coffee mug and the books spread over the floor.

I library at night, drinking coffee, a pile of books spread on the I table around her.