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Example sentences for "great heap"

  • There was a great heap of papers, again, upon the table, between the five men.

  • One morning in threshing-time Farmer Boggins went out to the barn before anyone else, and what was his surprise to find that a great heap of grain had been threshed out in the night.

  • But while he waited the little jackal gathered together a great heap of dead-wood and underbrush and piled it up against the door of the house.

  • But I ought to have told you that they had built up a great heap of stones behind the brushwood, and now they lighted the brushwood, and put down the pig to roast by the fire, and laid the wimble in the fire halfway up to the handle.

  • Dark and brown and cool the door of the barn stood open, as if inviting me to shelter and safety; for I knew that in the darkest end of it lay a great heap of oat-straw.

  • With hands and feet my father struggled, but could not do much, for I lay against him under a great heap.

  • Paid it in gold,--had a great heap of twenty-dollar pieces.

  • Must have been a great heap of things leftover.

  • An old woman, with her black face all tanned up (for the women work in the fields there), looks so funny peeping out of a great heap of white feathers and down!

  • They now piled up a great heap of wood in the mouth of the cave, so that the smoke would not enter, kindled the fire, and lighted the torches, till it was one glare of light, and the old rocks steamed with the heat.

  • So sat she while they went for wood, and she gazed mournfully into the great heap of gray and red, dotted with dying embers.

  • Those who heard her began to gather all this wood into a great heap.

  • On the summit of a low hill not more than half a mile from the house was a great heap of stones.

  • A month afterwards he went up to the garret, intending to gather together some old tin and to sell it, and saw a great heap of money lying.

  • The poor man went into the forest for the third time, and again saw the golden bird sitting on the tree, so he took a stone and brought it down and carried it to his brother, who gave him a great heap of gold for it.

  • In the garden behind the house there is a great heap of tan, and on this thou shalt stand and wait for me.

  • And there was lying on the hillside a great heap of deer, and wild pigs, and hares, and badgers, dead and torn, that were brought as far as that by the hunters that were tied up now in the cave.

  • Then the Men of Dea put up a great heap of stones, and brought away their dead; and of all the great slaughter that Finn and his men and the sons of Midhir had made, there was not left enough for a crow to perch upon.

  • Far fewer--not more than a great heap of ruins with a few pillars and memorial stones--are the remains of a second great work of Amenophis III.

  • Then they took the corpse down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate, and erected over it a great heap of stones till this day: but the city remained a heap of desolation.

  • They raised over him a great heap of stones, to this day; and Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger.

  • Katy didn't think any fine lady could be much charmed with that thin, hatchet face; and she realized now that Master Simon was a great heap of vanity.

  • Besides, as Grace jingled the two half dollars together, there was a harmony in the sound that suggested a great heap of good things for her mother.

  • We discovered a great heap of wacuities filled up wt gardens and wines, and the city seimed to us like a round hill, the top of it and all the sydes being filled wt houses.

  • There he gathered together a great heap of figs and hid under them.

  • So the seven brothers borrowed tools in a neighboring village and dug till they unearthed a great heap of gold money.

  • But while he waited, the jackal gathered together a great heap of dead wood and brush and piled it against the door of the house.

  • Grannie threw a great heap of dry wood upon the fire and ran with the children to the big rock, which lay part way down the path toward the river.

  • There were plenty of them, and they pulled up a great heap of long, tough stems, and brought them back to Hawk-Eye.

  • Firetop, you gather a great heap of sticks here on top of the rock.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great adventure; great affairs; great benefactor; great capital; great convenience; great courage; great demand; great depths; great effort; great empire; great encouragement; great esteem; great feast; great heaven; great house; great island; great nation; great nuisance; great shame; great soul; great traveller; great truth; great voice; greatest happiness; greatly relieved; turned loose