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  • Prehistoric rubbish heaps produced by the strandlopers are found in a number of caves and tell a great deal about the San people's lifestyle.
  • Last year there was only me and AA who were 1st years, plus AA is heaps older and I didn't know her at all.
  • 'The first principles of commercial activity have retreated to earth's maziest penetralia, where no tides are! is it not so, Skepsey?' said Mr. Fenellan, whose initiative and exuberance in loquency had been restrained by a slight oppression, known to guests; especially to the guest in the earlier process of his magnification and illumination by virtue of a grand old wine; and also when the news he has to communicate may be a stir to unpleasant heaps. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • International Food, cakes and preserves, exquisite craft, homemade sweets and lollies, pre-loved clothes and books and heaps more.
  • The twigs and pebbles and little heaps of dirt were apparently his attempt to recreate the house in miniature. SACRAMENT
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  • Even cheapskates would never suggest that you skip special dinners out, such as those celebrating anniversaries or job promotions.
  • The learned Sanskritist, H.H. Wilson, quotes the name Pippilika = ant-gold, given by the people of Little Thibet to the precious dust thrown up in the emmet heaps. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Helpings are always liberal and strictly in heaps.
  • You leave a small tip and your companion thinks you're a cheapskate; a large one and she thinks you're a flash git.
  • The leaves of the notorious North American native Nicotiana tabacum, a relative of the potato and tomato, are harvested when they begin to turn yellow and develop resinous secretions, then either sun-cured or fermented in heaps for several weeks, and dried by contact with hot metal. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
  • The machine flung up great heaps of earth.
  • There's a tender, flattened, finely crumbed chicken milanesa plate with the same rice and plantains, and a pabellón criollo plate that adds heaps of black beans and chewy, pleasant shredded beef to the rice and plantains.
  • We piled the branches into heaps for burning.
  • The kimonos and yukatas are for sale in heaps of colours and styles.
  • He speaks as both the film's director and star, and rightly heaps praise on his cast, both leads and supporting actors, whose excellent work adds much depth to the film.
  • How many people have venus inthe third househouse (astrologically speaking) short ansa heaps. Is Obama the Drug High America Wants and Needs? Politicapharmacology 101
  • She has done heaps of different courses in a range of areas but found that being able to sew stretchy fabrics meant she has been able to make clothes for the whole family quickly and inexpensively.
  • Most likely to become the starter is freshman Jake Heaps, who is simply the best passer available and showed an awful lot of preparedness and poise coming on campus before his senior year of high school was completed. Around the Mountain West Conference
  • Being a cheapskate is no crime but lying to congress is, a big “if” if he did. Matthew Yglesias » Confirmation Trouble and Tax Reform
  • Seen nearer at hand, the dun-coloured desert resolved itself into uncountable pimpling clay and mud-heaps, of divers shade and varying sizes: some consisted of but a few bucketfuls of mullock, others were taller than the tallest man. Australia Felix
  • We had some sensational reef fishing for three days catching heaps of red emperor, coral trout, nannygai, spanish mackerel and heaps more. WN.com - Business News
  • Thanks heaps, it means a lot to me and I'm really glad you liked it.
  • Kaffir blankets haunted the refuse-heaps, and fought with gaunt dogs for picked bones and empty meat-tins, and were found dead not unseldom, after full meals of strange and dreadful things. The Dop Doctor
  • A few quick mathematical calculations will show that there's heaps, piles, zillions more places where conditions like this exist in Space than on a planet's surface.
  • Entire villages had been reduced to tangled scrap heaps of rubble.
  • M.nsieur le M.rquis," said M. Gandrin, glancing at the card and the introductory note from M. Hebert, which Alain had sent in, and which lay on the 'secretaire' beside heaps of letters nicely arranged and labelled, The Parisians — Volume 01
  • The Australian economy seems heaps healthier by comparison.
  • The interior has heaps of rustic charm, with beamed ceilings, stone fireplaces and wood floors. Times, Sunday Times
  • Large compost heaps often get too hot, so aim for a heap of one cubic metre in volume. Times, Sunday Times
  • Heap leaching uses chemical solutions to dissolve gold from heaps of crushed ore.
  • I would say that parents in our position should not be made out to be tightwads and cheapskates.
  • Soon the entire crew is reduced to sweating and semi-conscious heaps of flatulent flesh.
  • The phrase "British cinema documentary" came to mean a black and white collage of steam locomotives, slag heaps, women in grubby kitchens and men in flat caps, searchlights and bomb damage. A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable!
  • The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  • There are various things to avoid, washer-men's donkeys and pariah dogs, unyoked ticca-gharries, heaps of rubbish, perhaps a leprous beggar. Hilda A Story of Calcutta
  • He's got heaps of photos proving he is a rough-and-tumble Kiwi bloke interested in hunting pigs, the bush, and swannies.
  • The rest is burned in heaps on the ground and never smoked at all.
  • Large compost heaps often get too hot, so aim for a heap of one cubic metre in volume. Times, Sunday Times
  • Spiral staircases and heaps of elegance lead the way to sumptuous rooms. Times, Sunday Times
  • Look at the Closet scene: Hamlet has just killed a man, Polonius, yet he heaps reproaches upon his mother's head for daring to re-marry.
  • Certainly no one enjoys being smeared as a race of cheapskates, especially when that cheapness has been presented over the centuries as a ruthless desire to take a profit at any cost.
  • How many cheapskate bosses will demand multi-skilling but not pay for the training?
  • At 44 I have at last weaned myself from milk and must admit I have heaps more energy, and am taking a calcium supplement to ensure my body receives it in a regular absorbable manner.
  • They were friends of mine, who already had tickets, but knew friends who were cheapskates and wouldn't buy opening day seats, no matter how much that they wanted to see a show.
  • Anyway, thanks heaps for the Mother's Day presents JJ and Miss M. Love ya!
  • Where but a few moments before had been men were only grotesque heaps, swiftly melting, swiftly rounding into the the semblance of the mounds that lay behind us — and already beginning to take on their gleam of ancient viridescence! The Moon Pool
  • He had directorial responsibility for three major new Bank of England buildings, including the New Change office block at the top of Cheapside.
  • Fallen leaves are swept into heaps, only to be blown away again and large palm fronds and tree branches scatter the tarmac.
  • The nomination fee is $25, which includes a barbie, plus heaps of prizes to be won.
  • Also thanks heaps to all of you who have reviewed so far.
  • Joseph could make out a couch and table on the far wall, but the couch was covered with heaps of clothes, newspapers, and assorted gimcracks. Missionaries
  • Worn-out truck tyres stacked in heaps announce the arrival in the village of the industrial era.
  • I would rather have the affectionate regard of my fellow men than I would have heaps and mines of gold. 
  • So they're out scavenging metal from any place, from heaps of old vehicles.
  • In the midst is a well where women in flowing drapery, with tall jars, draw water as if posing for Bible illustrations; and a camel market in which fifty or more of the brown, ungainly beasts have been relieved of their burdens and lain down for the night – doubled into uncomfortable heaps and bubbling and moaning with querulous discontent. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
  • The Mediterranean port city of Marseille has been particularly hard hit, with a strike by garbage collectors leaving the streets buried in heaps of trash. France Retirement Protests Turn Violent
  • Between the lozenge-shaped shafts of the choir arches, the worm-riddled parclose screens dripped sawdust in little heaps. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
  • Read more than the title guys, Sorensen is saying that Heaps will eventually ... Deseretnews.com - Top Stories
  • The heaps, known as windrows, bring down the temperature of the garbage and prevent leaching too, Ms. Patel says.
  • I should not have said that the Most Wonderful Daughter in the Whole World was a 'cheapskate' because she is 'so not'! Let's be honest...
  • I've heard of sock heaven for odd socks, but there must be a bookmark heaven for missing bookmarks as I've lost heaps over the years.
  • The Pilgrims dined on heaps of freshly killed turkey, mashed potatoes, yams, radishes, apple pie, and a multitude of other treats on sturdy, rugged tables built especially for the occasion.
  • The blossom on flowering trees is now breathtaking, with heaps of dazzling pinks and whites glistening in the spring sunshine. Times, Sunday Times
  • Three years later, both actors have emerged from their respective trash heaps in order to star in two separate movies about dogsledding.
  • A lot of people just take horse poo out of the stables from the bedding and pile it up as manure heaps.
  • Mats and blankets moldered in heaps in a corner and people seemed picky about which they selected.
  • People lay in twisted heaps where they'd been mown down in windrows during the first moments of the attack. T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
  • Politicians are spend-happy on the campaign trail, but cheapskates in office.
  • He caught sight of a slop-shop where old clothes smothered the entrance with their mucid heaps.
  • Heaps may be the favorite, though Nelson -- who mostly handed off or ran in sparse duty last season -- has the experience edge and also may have the confidence of current players. BYU - Team Notes
  • I would rather have the affectionate regard of my fellow men than I would have heaps and mines of gold. 
  • What she misses is the days when you could go into your local greengrocer to be confronted by heaps of fresh cauliflowers and swedes recently plucked from the earth by local farmers.
  • In the Mangrove creeks we found Telescopium, Pleurotoma; and heaps of oyster-shells, for the first time on our journey. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
  • This is stacked in heaps by the women and children and is set alight once it is dry.
  • The room was filled with the rattling sound of the machine and they were dropping down on the floor in heaps and heaps.
  • It was all strangely non-sexual really but heaps of fun.
  • The front doors did not close properly. Heaps of garbage littered the grounds.
  • Near the mouths of these pits were several other shallow pits, lined with clay, and full of rain water: between the _mine pits_ and these _wash pits_ laid several heaps of sandy gravel. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
  • And, on the other hand, it is even more closely affined to the skulls of certain ancient people who inhabited Denmark during the ‘stone period,’ and were probably either contemporaneous with, or later than, the makers of the ‘refuse heaps,’ or Essays
  • Rats raid buildings for food, but prefer to live outdoors, often in compost heaps for warmth. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cheapside, having invested some money in two desks, several pairs of richly-plated candlesticks, a dinner epergne, and a bagatelle-board. The History of Pendennis
  • When I called in the next day, there were still heaps of pre-autographed copies of their debut single sitting in the racks, at the knock-down price of 99p.
  • The machine flung up great heaps of earth.
  • Howard rode with us in the taxi, but the cheapskate didn't offer to pay any of the fare.
  • Lets just say that Bron and Drew were a great help that night… thanks heaps and I'm sorry for causing trouble.
  • They sometimes seem more concerned to punish those whose products end up on rubbish heaps than to encourage sensible behaviour.
  • There are heaps of cottages, and in the two years we were there, we stayed in at least four of them.
  • This bank consists of alluvia, or large heaps of organic matter, brought either from the Equator by the Gulf Stream, or from the North Pole by the counter-current of cold water which skirts the American coast. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  • I found Moodie and Monaghan employed in piling up heaps of bush near the house, which they intended to burn off by hand previous to firing the rest of the fallow, to prevent any risk to the building from fire. Roughing It in the Bush
  • I had a stickybeak around the LJ archives, discovered that I didn't have to have a paid account to set up a community I'm a cheapskate, aren't I? so I set up the community: Done!
  • Giant sting rays pile up in heaps on the adjacent sea floor.
  • An enormous hole had been made by the impact of the projectile, and the sand and gravel had been flung violently in every direction over the heath, forming heaps visible a mile and a half away.
  • While structures such as binomial heaps and red-black trees are presented, it is assumed that the reader already knows and understands them. Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • I would rather have the affectionate regard of my fellow men than I would have heaps and mines of gold. 
  • The habitat of the ink cap is in grass, rubbish heaps and on disturbed soil.
  • It was chaos, but an intricately organized chaos, and the first heaps of cargo were already being trundled off to dockside and the broad-beamed, clumsy-looking riverboats awaiting them.
  • While the Trumps and Iacoccas of the world prefer to present themselves in garish books with jackets featuring large color photos of their own faces, Buffett, the legendary midwestern cheapskate with a knack for discovering hidden value in cookware clubs (The Pampered Chef) and encyclopedia publishers (World Book), has reclaimed a form of junk mail for his collected works. American Everyman
  • Her parents had given her a curfew of midnight, so she had heaps of time.
  • Then they would sleep, again awaking at day-dawn when they would arise and seek for spoil, according to their custom, and ransack the heaps where at times they would hit upon a silverling of five dirhams and at other times a piece of four; and at eventide they would meet to spend together the dark hours, and they would expend everything they came by every day. Arabian nights. English
  • He says that in a few instances, solely on account of their bad report cards, he has fired salespeople who were writing up heaps of orders.
  • All around her were heaps of coins and jewels and weapons and trinkets; enough wealth for the ransom of ten kings.
  • Massive thumbs flicked, effortlessly sending metal crate tops high into the air, defying both their locks and hinges, to land noisily in crumpled heaps on the floor. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • I would rather have the affectionate regard of my fellow men than I would have heaps and mines of gold. 
  • Among the general detritus and debris, half-finished homework, mugs of undrunk tea, schoolbooks, and bits of model aircraft and bizarre gadgets lay in untended heaps.
  • Cool the gelatine mixture till half set and then spoon it in heaps on top of the cheesecake. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fall leaves lay in heaps on the ground, enveloping the road as well.
  • Making their way through the fruit skins and the heaps of garbage they start out towards the bus stand.
  • On sunny days they scattered and turned it, on wet days they banked it into heaps almost as tall as arrish-mows. Major Vigoureux
  • The only thing that does stop me from hanging up on such callers is the offer of something free, cheapskate that I am.
  • I sent Lieutenants Amir and Yusuf to prospect certain stone-heaps which lay seawards of the graves; and they found a little heptangular demi-lune, concave to the north; the curtains varying from a minimum length of ten to a maximum of eighty me'tres, and the thickness averaging two metres, seventy-five centimetres. The Land of Midian — Volume 1
  • Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
  • The Chaldean is compared to a harsh usurer, and his ill-gotten treasures to heaps of pledges in the hands of a usurer. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • But ice ages or no, millions of years of erosion will slowly flatten the planetary mineral heaps we call mountains.
  • He said: "Heaps of colored people" thought I was a "Kentuckian;" they said, I looked like one and that my team and carriage looked like a Kentucky rig. The Bark Covered House
  • But that afternoon an army of more than 50 men began scraping the snow and ice into heaps that were removed in wheel-barrows, handcarts and small wagons and dumped on the track bordering the pitch.
  • The blossom on flowering trees is now breathtaking, with heaps of dazzling pinks and whites glistening in the spring sunshine. Times, Sunday Times
  • I would rather have the affectionate regard of my fellow men than I would have heaps and mines of gold. 
  • The books and scrolls had been piled in heaps on the second bench. CHARMED LIFE
  • Thanks heaps for your time Paul and good luck for your future.
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  • That makes sense, but they can't be accurate because compost heaps generate heat which might accelerate decomposition.
  • Cool the gelatine mixture till half set and then spoon it in heaps on top of the cheesecake. Times, Sunday Times
  • Humans have always lived in a variety of types of site, from dungheaps to palaces, and it is an important aspect of archaeology to determine what kind of settlement people occupied.
  • You said that complaining of "cheapskate" boyfriends or husbands is common. "All the women here are lovely. We spend a lot of time sitting and talking. I'll stick it out a bit longer."
  • What has got me stonkered is this: There are 'heaps' of 'good' designers out there. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
  • High-grade ore is still refined in roasters and mills, but the low-grade stuff goes into leach heaps, huge hills of pulverized ore mounded atop plastic liners.
  • The wind was playing tricks, lifting heaps of dried leaves, whizzing them round, and shifting them from one end of the garden to the other.
  • And the king of the Singhalas gave those best of sea-born gems called the lapis lazuli, and heaps of pearls also, and hundreds of coverlets for elephants. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
  • Heaps of other stuff happened with the other characters and there were witty quips but I left my notebook at home.
  • I made the run-on team but as a winger because the incumbent halfback was heaps bigger and faster than me, and also because the mate that introduced me to the club had broken his nose the previous week.
  • There are rocks and pebbles, heaps of different tiny metallic things that resonate.
  • A pack of feral dogs lived among the heaps of dirt for a time, scavenging among empty beer cans and shopping trolleys.
  • There was a cheerful litter of the same paste-ups, art posters, heaps of paper and smart weeklies or monthlies that I had seen before. GOTHIC PURSUIT
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  • The boss usually heaps work on me just when it's time to go home.
  • The blossom on flowering trees is now breathtaking, with heaps of dazzling pinks and whites glistening in the spring sunshine. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cheapskate is a Jakun and known to abuse staff discounted tickets to regularly bring his whole family for holidays during his business trips. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
  • Papers were piled in great heaps on the desk.
  • No longer awash with big-boy bravado, they have crumpled into sobbing heaps.
  • Or, if you are planning on a Christmas theme, your Christmas wedding favors may be in the form of crackers, piled in heaps around the tables for guests to collect.
  • The books and scrolls had been piled in heaps on the second bench. CHARMED LIFE
  • In the Great Hall, Remco van Vliet inspected heaps of ilex berry, brown-backed magnolia and hydrangea flown in from Holland. The Master Builder of Towers of Flowers
  • At this pleasant Victorian seaside resort, they fry in oversized skillets burbling with oil - and heaps of sliced onions.
  • Civilization means living in cities and cities are confronted, in a way more dispersed settlements are not, with heaps of garbage and ordure.
  • Some of the volcanic lava erupted as fiery fountains, forming heaps of glass spherules.
  • The early reviews reckon her debut film is heaps better than Nic's was.
  • Thanks heaps for the feedback and reading the story!
  • Together, the male and female Western Grebe build a floating nest made of heaps of plant material anchored to emergent vegetation in a shallow area of a marsh.
  • It is important to geology not to confound the modern currents of lava, the heaps of basalt, green-stone, and phonolite, dispersed over the primitive and secondary formations, with those porphyroid masses having bases of compact feldspar, * which perhaps have never been perfectly liquified, but which do not less belong to the domain of volcanoes. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
  • I would rather have the affectionate regard of my fellow men than I would have heaps and mines of gold. 
  • I have to say, though, that it really is a lot of fun, and heaps better than painting pebbles.
  • Along the edge of the lawn drifts and heaps of yellow leaves caught the first light, looking for all the world as if they'd grown there overnight.
  • On bad days I expect heaps of sympathy and whinge incessantly in the vain hope that it will be forthcoming.
  • M.nsieur le M.rquis," said M. Gandrin, glancing at the card and the introductory note from M. Hebert, which Alain had sent in, and which lay on the 'secretaire' beside heaps of letters nicely arranged and labelled, "charmed to make the honour of your acquaintance; just arrived at Paris? The Parisians — Complete
  • Thanks heaps for that phrase, which I hadn't heard before, and is really useful for me in thinking about this.
  • We played it on a bigger stage as well, and our romantic lead, the actor who played Cornelius Hackl, had more room to move about, diving over and behind furniture, throwing himself across the floor, running, leaping, collapsing in dizzied heaps, and showing off all the tricks he'd learned from watching Dick Van Dyke reruns all the time when he was growing up. Lance Mannion:
  • Lost, hidden or assumed pieces of information come to the surface and there is an audible “A ha!” and the story goes ahead in heaps and bounds. Critiquing: Agreeing to Disagree « Write Anything
  • Reminding himself that there was nothing to fear he set off, past the loose boxes with their heaps of shabby treasure.
  • The clothing and bedding of plague victims are particularly dangerous, as are wooden buildings, earthen floors, rubbish heaps, and dunghills.
  • There was a cheerful litter of the same paste-ups, art posters, heaps of paper and smart weeklies or monthlies that I had seen before. GOTHIC PURSUIT
  • All around her men and elves fell in bloody heaps, Krast spitting contemptuously on their broken bodies.
  • Thallus of small or minute, flattened or rugose, scattered or clustered, ash-grey to green-gray granules, these bursting into sorediate heaps, or forming a moderately thick, areolate crust; apothecia minute to small, Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
  • Dodge's writing is seriously fun; heaps of enthusiasm and lashings of atmosphere.
  • My eyes traveled in horror to the base of the toilet where a pile of towels and a once vibrant yellow shag rug lay in heaps.
  • Viewed from a distance through binoculars, the farm buildings were hidden in places by scaffolding and there were heaps of building materials visible all over the farmyard.
  • It was a difficult bastard to empty and move, as it's a ‘waveless’ type and the waddy stuff inside retains heaps of water and makes it heavy.
  • She shouts after me, and something about the singsong intonation tells me it isn't 'you cheapskate farang' or anything similar. Times, Sunday Times
  • The only light was the fetid bioluminescence coming off the heaps of garbage. METAPLANETARY
  • I would rather have the affectionate regard of my fellow men than I would have heaps and mines of gold. 
  • The result is that I rarely purchase things for myself, have a reputation with my wife as a cheapskate, and am the only person in the house that can say ‘No’ to my son with any regularity.
  • Heaps of chestnuts are being turned enthusiastically in a brazier of glowing red coals, and I'm encouraged to tuck in.
  • We move into the chamber and carefully pick our way between heaps of skulls and ribcages.
  • Though vast the heaps that strow the crimson plain, The Iliad of Homer
  • Near the bridge are several heaps of Babylonian pitch, to pitch ships.
  • We got heaps of orders for bangers. The Sun
  • Iranian TV goes ga-ga over Obama - Heaps praise on Democrats while blasting 'absentminded' LifeSiteNews.com Headlines
  • The ashes from the house and the log-heaps were either leached at home, and the lye boiled down in the large potash kettles ” of which almost every farmer had one or two ” and converted into potash, or became a perquisite of the wife, and were carried to the ashery, where they were exchanged for crockery or something for the house. Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago
  • Again, the special is heaps of food: chicken udon with a dynamite roll of sushi and a lovely piece of salmon for $8.95.
  • It's a hassle to photocopy a book cover to cover, so most of us don't bother to do it, and those who do are possibly such cheapskates that they wouldn't buy the original to begin with.
  • Plus he's heaps interested in, like, fashion and stuff.
  • The only light was the fetid bioluminescence coming off the heaps of garbage. METAPLANETARY
  • Cheapskate bosses can be fined or even sent to prison.
  • The business is also the sole stockist in the Northern Rivers for Austral plywood and there are currently heaps of natural timber slabs on sale that are great for kitchen benches and the like.
  • Tolerating no unseemly sights, lank, limp, succulent vegetation sprang up as if by magic on the mullock heaps, as did grey fluffy fungus on damp boots and dripping tucker-bags. Last Leaves from Dunk Island
  • Thanks heaps for sharing you life with us and our readers.
  • Furthermore, the New York Times heaps blame on Republicans for the trouble health reform is in now, not on the design of the reform that Americans are loudly and clearly objecting to — which is the height of contortionism. New York Times Editorial Urges Dems to Walk the Plank, Alone - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState
  • Martin, after a few instructions, sorted the great heaps of soiled clothes, while Joe started the masher and made up fresh supplies of soft-soap, compounded of biting chemicals that compelled him to swathe his mouth and nostrils and eyes in bath - towels till he resembled a mummy. Chapter 16
  • Tackle shops sell pots of brandlings but they can be gathered quite easily from manure and compost heaps.
  • Low inflation, low interest rates and sustainable economic growth are the main ingredients that allow banks to make heaps of money.
  • It also looks at how existing spoil heaps are being leveled and landscaped.
  • The abattis has usually four entrances which are choked up with heaps of bushes at night. First footsteps in East Africa
  • We found some pretty neat stuff: a few places with heaps of charcoal and good potential for radiocarbon dates; old tree roots (I think) sticking out of the loess, which could be evidence of the area previously being forested, as they were quite big and can be dated as well; a tall cliff of loess (no rocks!) with a paleosol in the middle. NYT > Home Page
  • I had seen human remains treated with far less reverence; the skulls of early Christian martyrs jammed cheek by bony jowl together in heaps in the catacombs, thigh bones tossed in a pile like jackstraws underneath. Dragonfly in Amber
  • This delightful anthology of prose and poetry, mostly homegrown but with contributions from Pliny on the magnificence of the box hedges cut into a thousand animal shapes in his Tuscan garden (with hippodrome), the 9th-century Frankish monk Strabo on the cultivation of dung heaps, and Thomas Jefferson on his ever-expanding vegetable patch, is the perfect companion for weeding, dead-heading, pricking out and mulching. Back to nature
  • While some fragments of buildings and heaps of distinguishable rubble littered the area, most of the area was flattened as if paved by a steamroller.
  • Imagine that as the guy with the Will-Work-4-Food sign grovels as the freeway offramp, he's rewarded not with some middle-class cheapskate's Starbucks change, but with a small diamond! Doug Molitor: Buddy, Can You Spare a Diamond?
  • Great quantities of small stones resembling basaltes were in heaps round the edges, at a little distance from which the stones were perpendicular, and firmly bedded in the earth; many of them regular six-sided figures, and all fractured into laminae, from two to nine inches in thickness. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
  • These are just heaps of noble materials sheathing insignificant forms and insipid patterns or inappropriate functions that could have been rejected.
  • ‘I'm a cheapskate,’ she says unapologetically.
  • The crumbled concrete has sat in heaps for so long that erosion has begun to soften its edges, scouring away the memory of blocks and mortar. Coco McCabe: Haiti: One Man, Six Hats, and a Proverb About Hope

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