Mounds

Examples

• Till the Mounds is down and this business completed, you're accountable for all the property, recollect. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Could you be got to do so, till the Mounds are gone? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I can price the Mounds to a fraction, and I know how they can be best disposed of; and likewise that they take no harm by standing where they do. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Using this cover, they were linking the individual mounds up with stones and dirt. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Not them Mounds without,' said Mr Wegg, extending his right hand with an air of solemn reasoning, 'encouragement? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Because it would be unknowingly sold with the mounds else, and the buyer would get what he was never meant to have, and never bought. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was a cloudy night, and the black shadow of the Mounds made the dark yard darker. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But, eyes no less rapacious had watched the growth of the Mounds in years bygone, and had vigilantly sifted the dust of which they were composed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I see closed daisy-heads gleaming like pearls on some mounds. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It'll look but a poor dead flat without the Mounds. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But he did turn it on, almost in that same instant, and flashed its light upon the first of the Mounds. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Aye, when I think of those smallest eels, tiny, delicate and in mounds on the plate. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Did you hear him say, you cur, that he was going to have the Mounds cleared off, when no doubt the whole place will be rummaged? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There's a serpentining walk up each of the mounds, that gives you the yard and neighbourhood changing every moment. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They had dug with their knees and hands and made mounds in front of their heads and shoulders with the dirt and piles of stones. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• A foreman-representative of the dust contractors, purchasers of the Mounds, had worn Mr Wegg down to skin and bone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Oliver crept away to the old churchyard, and sitting down on one of the green mounds, wept and prayed for her, in silence. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• But, Mr Wegg,' urged Venus, 'it was your own idea that he should not be exploded upon, till the Mounds were carted away. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Venus explained under what conditions, and with what views, the dropping down upon Mr Boffin was held over until the Mounds should be cleared away. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Isn't your own Mr Boffin well acquainted with the Mounds? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There used to be stories about his having hidden all kinds of property in those dust mounds. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• All the mounds are sorted and sifted? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• These mounds are usually about eighteen feet apart, and consist of about as much earth as would fill a very large wheelbarrow. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is possible to travel for days at a time through country which is dotted over with mounds, every one of which is the home of a pair or more of prairie-dogs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This, to secure attention to his adding with his lips only, 'Mounds! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You'll leave me in sole custody of these Mounds till they're all laid low. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Not resting satisfied with giving that much chace to Mrs Boffin's fancies, they pursued them into the yard and outbuildings, and under the Mounds. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Over the whole slow process of levelling the Mounds, Silas had kept watch with rapacious eyes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The whole community lent a hand in building the mounds and hauling the stones. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Now that the Mounds is done with, it is. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Edited by Karl