"I climbed up on one of the
piles," explained Anne wearily, "and Gilbert Blythe came along in Mr.
A magnificent decadence, however, for the ancient Gothic genius, that sun which sets behind the gigantic press of Mayence, still penetrates for a while longer with its rays that whole hybrid
pile of Latin arcades and Corinthian columns.
The houses of all shapes and sizes were piled about as a child might
pile blocks of various forms and colors.
The origin of the island of Nukuheva cannot be imputed to the coral insect; for indefatigable as that wonderful creature is, it would be hardly muscular enough to
pile rocks one upon the other more than three thousand feet above the level of the sea.
Rounding the base of a large
pile of grass-covered debris, we came suddenly upon the best preserved ruin we had yet discovered.
These fish, Bess, which thou seest lying in such
piles before thee, and which by to-morrow evening will be rejected food on the meanest table in Templeton, are of a quality and flavor that, in other countries, would make them esteemed a luxury on the tables of princes or epicures.
The most skilful geologist, if his attention had been exclusively confined to these large territories, would never have suspected that during the periods which were blank and barren in his own country, great
piles of sediment, charged with new and peculiar forms of life, had elsewhere been accumulated.
The lower beds of the Peuquenes ridge, and of the several great lines to the westward of it, are composed of a vast
pile, many thousand feet in thickness, of porphyries which have flowed as submarine lavas, alternating with angular and rounded fragments of the same rocks, thrown out of the submarine craters.
One by one they unearthed many similar pieces, all of the same uniform, dirty yellow, until a
pile of them lay upon the ground, a
pile which Abdul Mourak fondled and petted in an ecstasy of greed.
When all the keeper's goods were flung upon this costly
pile, to the last fragment, they smeared it with the pitch, and tar, and rosin they had brought, and sprinkled it with turpentine.
The Mangaboos drove the horse and the kitten and the piglets into this dark hole and then, having pushed the buggy in after them--for it seemed some of them had dragged it all the way from the domed hall--they began to
pile big glass rocks within the entrance, so that the prisoners could not get out again.
The other two men were with Montgomery, erecting a
pile of smaller packages on a low-wheeled truck.