Old bankbooks and ledgers were stacked in the half-open drawers and there was a small safe, empty but locked, set like a tabernacle in the center of it.
He saw Daniel, screamed, and reached into the half-open drawer under the communicator.
Gersen stepped quickly past, removed the projac from the half-open drawer.
As the general mess in any crew quarters, short of an inspection by a High Emassi, was never very tidy, half-open drawers, with contents half-in and half-out would be unexceptional.
Beneath the window lay an overturned desk, an anglepoise lamp crumpled underneath it; two legs of an upturned stool were stuck in the half-open drawers.
Then in the bedroom he discovered a collection of steamy personal letters tucked into a half-open drawer.
He wandered back to the office, yawned, sat down at the desk, pushed the chair back far enough that he could get his heels on a half-open drawer, picked up the first file.
Marq turned from the terminal and caught a glimpse of his doll in her half-open drawer.
My hand was resting on my desk top just above the half-open drawer.