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Example sentences for "great pile"

  • The water rushed through the mill and tore a great pile of machinery from its fastenings and caused other damage.

  • Once these sisters stopped, for the first time showing horror, by a great pile of dead children and infants on the river bank laid one on top of the other.

  • At the head of the iron company's works was a great pile of iron in pieces eight feet long and a foot and a half thick either way.

  • Just beside the road was a great pile of dark-colored dirt, and there was a two-wheeled cart backed up to the pile, and a man was shoveling the dirt into the cart.

  • It was a great pile of wood that the people who moved into the house could have to burn.

  • And there they saw a great pile of shutters or blinds which were to go on the outside of all the windows of the house.

  • And build there a great pile of oak and wild olive, and lay me thereon, and set fire thereto.

  • So they bare Hercules to the top of the hill of Oeta, and built a great pile of wood, and laid him thereon.

  • Then they drenched with wine the great pile of wood, which was thirty yards long and broad, and set fire to it, and the fire blazed all through the night and died down in the morning.

  • Next the Greeks made a great pile of dry wood, and laid Achilles on it, and set fire to it, till the flames had consumed his body except the white ashes.

  • The boat pulled on a dozen yards to the stairs, and the scout swam gently to the shelter of a great pile.

  • A great pile of nets had been lying on the ground, and the three men gathered the nets up, and led the way, while the two last-comers followed with the prisoner.

  • Instead, all they saw was a great pile of poles and sticks which looked like anything but a dam.

  • After a while he went over to his storehouse, which, you know, was nothing but a great pile of aspen logs and branches in his pond close by his house.

  • He was sure of it when he watched Paddy heap up a great pile of mud right in the middle where his room ought to be, and then build a wall of sticks around it.

  • After a while he went over to his storehouse, which, you know, was nothing but a great pile of aspen-logs and branches in his pond close by his house.

  • Throwing up the dirt upon the other side of them, the Indians had made a great pile outside, and stood in a deep hole against the face of the ornament.

  • On one side of the clearing was a great pile or small mountain of corn in the ear, ready to be threshed, and near by was the threshing machine, which certainly could not be considered an infringement of any Yankee patent right.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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