He stood for a moment after Ruth was seated, and then, seeing that Philip Alston was about to lift a candle-stand which was heaped with parcels, he went to aid him, and the two men together set the little table before her.
They were looking at her and not at the gifts lying heaped on the candle-stand, but she did not notice that.
In his every act he heaped humiliation upon me, and insulted me silently and gratuitously with unbearable disdain.
The filth and bones of beasts which have been killed, heaped upon one another, serve, to use the expression, as a girdle to the capital.
They then enclose the tomb with great stones heaped upon one another, which serve as a monument to these pillaging soldiers.
Above these stones, arose at a little distance, a whitish earth, upon which we saw great trunks of trees, heaped upon one another, the roots of which were torn off.
Alessandro, and of the municipality of Assisi, it is very difficult to profit by these treasures heaped up in a dark room without a table to write upon.
Creeping behind another shaft, we reach still another chasm, above which piles of dark rocks lie heaped in such confusion as might result from a great convulsion.
But marvels heaped together cease to be marvellous, and of all places in the world a museum is the most tiresome.
Now the wood was heaped on one fire, and around this blazing pile soldiers sat or stretched themselves on blankets and ponchos.
By gentleness prove yourselves the friends of birds, and they will return your kindness with a measure heaped up and overflowing.
Perchance along the river’s shore I would hear the heaped ice crack and groan as the breath of Spring snaps its bonds and sends this rugged gift of Winter whirling to the sea.
Landon should pay to the uttermost, not only for the wrongs which he had heaped year by year upon his wife and her relations, but for the injury he had done to those of his own blood.
The next instant he had cried out--a choking cry, smothered under the folds of the sail which the man had heaped bodily upon his head.
He paced forward a yard or two and examined the heaped wreckage of plaster, wooden beams, and stones.
Miller drew an edge of tarpaulin over a heaped rope, and, after a regretful glance at his no longer immaculately gray trousers, sat down.
High above their head was an arch of masonry, massively mortised, curving from a wall to a row of squat, solid pillars; and these last flanked a pile of heapedrubble and stone.
It is a completion, a consummation, a paying of a debt with a royal hand; the measure is heaped and overflowing.
The fire of life still burns, but very faintly and slowly, as with the draughts all closed and the ashes heaped up.
They surrounded a camp-kettle full of steaming ears and half a bushel or so of apples heaped on a poncho.
He rushed to his bunk and got his gum blanket and heaped upon it a pile as big as a small haycock, but the mass in the kettle seemed larger than it was before this was subtracted.
The corn-house was surrounded by wagons, the roof was gently lifted off, and in scarcely more time than it takes to tell the story six or eight of the wagons were heaped with the contents.
A hubbub surrounds the foot of the mean wall where we are heaped like bundles, with a gray, muddy, and trampled spectacle lying before us, laid waste by rain.
By fits and starts the conversation goes on in the bosom of this fantastic barn and the great moving shadows that cross it; night is heaped up in its corners, and pointed by a few scattered and sickly candles.
It is not what he said of either myself or my family that I contain of, but of the abuse he heaped upon the law at large, and the independent magistrates of the country.
I will speak the truth myself, I can well understand what resentment he had heaped up in his son’s heart against him.
What troubles me and makes me indignant is that of all the mass of facts heaped up by the prosecution against the prisoner, there is not a single one certain and irrefutable.
As we did so the natives heaped coal upon the fire, and the flames arose, lighting up the interior.
What availed it all when the same hand that heaped favors upon me, the guest, could deal death without compunction upon friends and relatives?
Never before had he been so treated by man or woman; and the worst of the matter was that he had an uneasy feeling that he had deserved the scorn which she had heaped upon him.
Put into a bowl half a pint of grated bread-crumbs, and a heaped table-spoonful of flour, and pour on them a half pint of boiling milk.
To lessen the extreme acid of the tomatos, stir in a heaped table-spoonful of sugar.
In the morning drain them, and season them with a very little salt and cayenne, and a head of minced celery, or else a heaped table-spoonful of celery seed.
Drain the tomatos well from the vinegar; skin them, and mash them in a pan; dredging them with about as much flour as would fill a large table-spoon heaped up.
To prepare it properly, allow a quarter of a pound of nice butter, to a heaped table-spoonful of flour.
Have ready mixed in a bowl a pint of brown sugar, moistened with fresh butter, so as to make a stiff paste, and flavor it with two heaped table-spoonfuls of powdered cinnamon.
The contents of the pie should be heaped up in the centre.
Make some nice drawn butter, allowing half a pound of nice fresh butter to two heaped table-spoonfuls of flour, and a pint of hot water.
Add a heaped tea-spoonful of powdered loaf sugar, and stir in a glass of the best port wine.
Send the meat to table with the vegetables heaped round it, on the same large dish, (the cabbage being chopped, but not minced fine.
Having washed in cold water three heaped table-spoonfuls of tapioca; drain it, put it into a clean quart bowl, pour on water enough to cover it well, and soak it four hours.
Make a batter of two or three beaten eggs, and a pint of milk, with a heaped table-spoonful of flour.
Allow to each egg a heaped table-spoonful of flour, and a jill or small tea-cupful of milk.
But the peasants followed him all the way to Falkensten, gathered brushwood and branches which they heaped about the castle, and then set on fire, determined to destroy that den of thieves.
The sky, which had been bright blue, grew white in some places, and the white ran together like thick milk and heaped itself in close masses.
We visited the storehouse of these "relics of departed worth," in the bank, where millions of tatterdemalions were heaped up, awaiting their fiery doom.
This I apprehend to have been the operation of extraordinary high tides, occasioned by violent, accidental gales from the westward, which have heaped up the sand beyond the reach of common tides.
Some of them have large quantities of stones, irregularly heaped together at their root, or on their sides.
The half dozen buildings were thick and well tightened, and the piles of firewood heaped handy were like structures themselves.
The government imprisoned and banished their leaders, while the mob, unchecked, heaped upon them all manner of abuse.
He heapedinsults upon the legates, and at the Synod of Worms, on 24th January, had the pope formally deposed as a perjured usurper of the papal chair, a tyrant, an adulterer and a sorcerer.
