He staggered after her in silence, stumbled into the cab and collapsed in a heap in the corner, half on the floor, half on the seat.
For her pathos, her better impulses, which had touched him and led him to sympathy with her, were perhaps only stars in a mind that must be a dust-heap of horrible memories and coarse thoughts.
And when a swirl of the air lifted the smoke curtain, a gray heap on the ground was all that remained.
Nick Schmouder, with scarcely a trace of German accent, as he and the other prisoners stood with upraised hands, though one of the survivors had to drop his as he fell in a heap because of weakness from his wounds.
It seems a strange thing and most irregular, but the verdict was actually given against Landulph on the testimony of this wandering rack-heap of unidentified bones.
The maids were huddled in a heap together in a corner of the dairy, and refused to budge an inch, and Mrs. Tarne was shaking more than Mrs. Pemberthy.
She watched the heap as it smouldered away, and finally dispersed the embers by a vigorous application of the poker.
The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days and added years would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame.
Here they sat down on a luxuriant heap of moss; which at some epoch of the preceding century, had been a gigantic pine, with its roots and trunk in the darksome shade, and its head aloft in the upper atmosphere.
And in the deep forest, where only the old trees can hear, and the strip of sky see it, he talks with thee, sitting on a heap of moss!
For it seems just to be all the heap of people who are only a little religious who never get any good out of it.
After he had hollowed out the heap till it looked like an eagle's nest, he spread another pile of flowers over himself, and went to sleep, pleasantly narcotised by all the sweet scents.
The weary and hungry traveller prepared himself a bed with a heap of flowers which he kept in its place with some stones.
The wood became thinner, and they came to an open place where was something resembling a heap of stones, out of which there arose a single pillar.
It is all over with Holland; on to the rubbish-heap with it!
Get in he did, quickly enough, and, after he had been well thrashed, was thrown out again and fell on a rubbish-heap on which dogs hunted for bones.
At the same time the apparentheap of stones moved and became a living mass.
Weary, but not depressed, he sat down on a rubbish heap which seemed quite fresh.
Julian mounted a heap of stones to see what was the matter.
Thet's a heap more schoolin' then I ever had, an' I've done got along all right.
Above their heads was a vast hole in the ceiling, and above that a huge gap in the thatch; and at their feet lay a heap of bricks, mortar, and fragments of rotten wood.
In the pale obscurity of the room, his bearded cheeks could be seen buried in a heap of tossed pillows.
Two men were beating a heap of wet clay in order to insure a something in the bakery which nobody understood, but which the guide took some trouble to explain.
At this moment Mrs. Swiggs' attention is attracted by a crowd of ragged urchins and grotesque-looking men, gathered about a heap of filth at that corner of Orange street that opens into the Points.
Winterborne went across to the spot, and found the phaeton half overturned, its driver sitting on the heap of rubbish which had once been his dwelling, and the man seizing the horses' heads.
Eleven, twelve, one o'clock struck; the heap of spars grew higher, and the pile of chips and ends more bulky.
Thus she approached the heap of ashes, and acting upon what was suggested by a still shining ember or two, she took a stick and stirred the heap, which thereupon burst into a flame.
Oh, you know a heapabout business, you do, don't you?
When the last prayer was consumed, and the fire had died down to a little heap of white ashes, Ping felt that he had done everything possible to insure Motor Matt's safety and success.
He'll ask a heap of money for the trip," suggested Prebbles.
To this the farmer's daughter made no reply, and as the guests were now starting to the barnyard she was escorted between the two rivals to the great coneshaped heap of unhusked corn gleaming in the pale moonlight.
It is a shame that you had to burn up your house to do it," she commented, "when a brush-heap might have answered the purpose quite as well.
At last the scald fell, and then with a great howl they let him go, flinging him out of the circle like a stone, and he lay in a heap where they tossed him, and was quite still.
So I stepped boldly before it, standing on the heap of newly-fallen earth that had slipped from across it.
Another had been tied by the passage doorway, where I had stepped on it; and below a spar that stood across a corner lay a tumbled heap of feathers that had been a falcon.
Me got heap cache nuts and berries," said the squaw.
I'll make ye a heap sicker if ye don't vamose the ranch," continued Fairley, advancing.
You, you have dared to lift your hand against the blood-royal, and with your foul tongue to heap lies and insults upon the name of the mighty dead.
As for me, I sat down upon an ant-heap and whistled a whole hymn tune that my mother had taught me before I could think at all.
Well, we talked away, and by degrees, without seeming too much interested in them, I was furnished with a list of all the advancements which it had pleased Panda to heap upon Saduko during the past year.
But even when this operation was finished, a heap of the shining metal still lay on the table before them.
When all the belts and parcels of dust were piled in a heap on the table, Mr. Bright sat for some time with his hand over his eyes without speaking.
On the top of this heap they make a hole, in which the female drops two or three eggs, one on the top of the other.
Then with their beaks they proceed to collect all the stones in the neighbourhood, which they heap up outside the lines marked out, to serve them as a wall, to shelter them from the prevailing winds.
The sportsmen are hidden in a small hut placed on the edge of some lake or river, or it may be erected in the middle of the water on a heap of stones.
They've got a heap of cheek to take those skins to the fort.
I came from down in Mississippi, where my uncle owns a plantation and a heap of niggers," answered Tom, who did not like the way the boy eyed him when he spoke.
I tell you that there's a heap of things connected with this nugget that we shall never find out.
He glanced at the heapof bills he had flung on the table between them.
Pete Stolway vaulted out of his chair to capture the yellow pencil, but he had the misfortune to step on both the pieces of crayon, crushing them to sand, a heap of yellow grit.
Delivered from all dread of rivals, our queen sets to work with an indefatigable zeal; and the workers, animated by the hope of a numerous progeny, heap up provisions around them.
The best means is to store corn properly, and to keep the heap well aired.
They enter the mouth, corrode and devour the gums and the entrance of the throat, so as to transform those parts into a mass of putrid flesh, a heap of corruption.
There are no sorts of attentions they do not heap upon them to make them forget their captivity.
