Piles

Examples

• These piles are perhaps three or four feet high, and are so neat and true that they appear to have been the work of a master mason. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Black was the river as a torrent of ink; lights glanced on it from the piles of building round, ships rocked on its bosom. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is about five hundred years old, I believe, and stands on twelve hundred thousand piles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Those big piles of sawdust. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Beth was there, laying the snowy piles smoothly on the shelves and exulting over the goodly array. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• That must be the odor of nostalgia, the smell of the smoke from the piles of raked leaves burning in the streets in the fall in Missoula. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The machine did the work of the original man with the sickle or scythe and that of the cradler, and having cut the grain left it in loose piles on the ground. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• 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.
• On the other hand, in all parts of the world the piles of sedimentary strata are of wonderful thickness. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The flames from funeral piles long ago kindled there had shone down upon the lowlands as these were shining now. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The ties would then be placed in piles, and the rails, as they were loosened, would be carried and put across these log heaps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Coal cars are dumped into hoppers under the tracks and the coal carried to the top of the piles by conveyors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We saw rude piles of stones standing near the roadside, at intervals, and recognized the custom of marking boundaries which obtained in Jacob's time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• On the table lay two banknotes for ten pounds each and seventeen pounds ten in silver and gold, the money arranged in little piles of varying amount. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He never left her house without carrying respectfully away with him piles of her quack theology and medicine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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