They joined hands, and the man sat down on the
heap of stones.
The same sort of process has perhaps been undergone by wiser men, when they have been cut off from faith and love--only, instead of a loom and a
heap of guineas, they have had some erudite research, some ingenious project, or some well-knit theory.
At the very top was a level plain upon which were
heaps of rock that at first glance seemed solid.
The king was greatly delighted to see all this glittering treasure; but still he had not enough: so he took the miller's daughter to a yet larger
heap, and said, 'All this must be spun tonight; and if it is, you shall be my queen.' As soon as she was alone that dwarf came in, and said, 'What will you give me to spin gold for you this third time?' 'I have nothing left,' said she.
Tattered gamins on the right made a furious assault on the gravel
heap. On their small, convulsed faces there shone the grins of true assassins.
Those who had axes and had spent their fury on the movables, chopped and tore down the doors and window frames, broke up the flooring, hewed away the rafters, and buried men who lingered in the upper rooms, in
heaps of ruins.
He could then use both hands, and had soon
heaped into the car more than five hundred pounds of stones, which enabled both the doctor and Kennedy, in their turn, to get out.
The Abyssins have three different ways of putting a criminal to death: one way is to bury him to the neck, to lay a
heap of brambles upon his head, and to cover the whole with a great stone; another is to beat him to death with cudgels; a third, and the most usual, is to stab him with their lances.
That
heap of stones brings us at once to the dawn of the Anglian kingdom.
There were forty wolves, and forty times a wolf was killed, so that at last they all lay dead in a
heap before the Woodman.
The Fox accumulated all that they had killed into one large
heap and left to himself the smallest possible morsel.
By the hideous prison-wall, And a little
heap of burning lime,
