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While McNamara, with an eye on the clock, slashes away at his paper work, Gilpatric sits suavely behind an unlittered desk, almost always has time for some casual talk with a visitor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jimmy sits at a huge, unlittered desk with one telephone.

From Time Magazine Archive

In such a place lived the hermits of the early church piercing to infinity with unlittered minds.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

The floor was of wide, heavy planks, almost black in color and unlittered, so that if the key were there it would have been instantly visible.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

The dooryard was scrupulously clean and unlittered; the little footpath through it was neatly bordered by white clam shells; several thrifty geraniums in bloom looked out from the muslin-curtained windows.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)