Piled

Examples

• Miss Kate and Mr. Brooke, Meg, and Ned declined, but Fred, Sallie, Jo, and Laurie piled and drew, and the lot fell to Laurie. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The paper, cut into the desired form by a separate machine, was piled up on one side of the envelope folder. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Here he kept a great mass of wood, high piled, ready to be ignited as a signal should a steamer or a sail top the far horizon. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• And, to speak truly, every mule stumbled over the two, and the whole cavalcade was piled up in a heap. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They brought the cars around to the front of the villa and we loaded them with the hospital equipment which was piled in the hallway. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• During the Middle Ages he piled on more and more, until at last one of the knights could hardly walk, and it took a strong horse to carry him. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was piled with household furniture. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• There was a note on the window for me to fill the cars with the material piled in the hall and to proceed to Pordenone. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The other occupants of the room, five in number, were all females, and they were still sleeping, piled high with a motley array of silks and furs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Between nine and ten tons of paper are thus wetted daily; and the sheets of the _Times_ printed during a year, if spread out and piled one upon another, would form a column as high as Mont Blanc. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The felts were then removed, and the sheets were piled upon one another and again pressed, after which they were dried, sized, and finished. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The well at the bottom of the dungeon is piled with stones. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• At the machine head, the film was piled on the floor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I approached the bed; I opened the curtains and leant over the high-piled pillows. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The raw materials for the open-hearth furnaces are received on elevated railroad tracks graded and piled preparatory to sending to the furnaces. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Here also are other cabinets containing old papers and records, while further along the wall are piled up boxes of historical models and instruments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Now nearly every reading citizen of every village has piled up in some corner of his house a better supply than that, of bound or unbound literature, and of a far superior quality. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Saturnia's statue rises chaste, grand, untouched; at her feet piled ashes lie pale. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• With that, he called to his men, who came trooping into the kitchen one after another, and piled their arms in a corner. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Before the day was through, her basket was filled, crowded down, and piled, and she had several times put largely into Tom's. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Why did they send me so far and so lonely, Up where the moors spread and grey rocks are piled? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I cut the cape, then ripped it in two, and laid it under the wheel in the mud, then piled brush for the wheels to catch. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• And all the while the pensive, tortured woman piled up her own defences of aesthetic knowledge, and culture, and world-visions, and disinterestedness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• These, instead of being cured in brine, are rubbed in salt and piled away. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You should step into my warehouse yonder, and observe how it is piled to the roof with pieces. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Epstein went up to several boxes piled full of chips, and so heavy that he could not lift even one end of a box. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I observed that books were piled on the floor at all other points, but that one bookcase was left clear. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The head lay on a number of flint fragments carefully piled together pillow fashion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It gave out 11,000 perfected sheets, or 22,000 impressions an hour, and as each sheet was printed, it was cut by a knife on the cylinder, and the sheets piled on the paper boards. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Carts were piled exactly as for a _capea_ except that the side toward the river was not enclosed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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