Heaps

Examples

• A little way within the shop-door lay heaps of old crackled parchment scrolls and discoloured and dog's-eared law-papers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Insurmountable heaps sometimes opposed themselves; the still burning fires scorched me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Adieu, I send heaps of love to Papa. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They are still up to it, sir, says Mr. Guppy, still taking stock, still examining papers, still going over the heaps and heaps of rubbish. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Miss Wade is a clever lady, who has read heaps of books, and can tell you far better and more interesting stories than I know. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Law, 't wasn't no sort o' use; I lost money on 'em, and 't was heaps o' trouble. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Among them odd heaps of old papers, this gentleman, when he comes into the property, naturally begins to rummage, don't you see? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Sadly and slowly I stemmed my course from among the heaps of slain, and, guided by the twinkling lights of the town, at length reached Rodosto. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• John is good and wise, he's got heaps of talent, he's willing to work and sure to get on, he's so energetic and brave. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The God sends down his angry plagues from high, Famine and pestilence in heaps they die. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It gradually accumulates around these, until the heaps become very large, often forming dunes or sand-hills. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The child was evidently sincere, and Jane, breaking into a short laugh, said, Laws, Missis, there's heaps of 'em. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They dies in their lodgings--she knows where; I showed her--and they dies down in Tom-all-Alone's in heaps. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Both our _heaps hold out_ very well, and we seem likely to make a pretty good _day's work_ of it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Bit by bit other fragments of this skull were hunted out from the quarry heaps until most of it could be pieced together. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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