I much preferred the long sandy Irish beaches with interesting cliffs to climb, and rock pools with shrimps hiding in the seaweed to investigate, compared to Brighton, with its heaped-up banks of pebbles which were so hard on the toes. ❋ Patrick Cockburn (2011)
So you fell for the inflamed flower of my youth, and it was up to you to father the world, to wash in the great line of heaped-up generations, if you could only reach up under my plum, lock and curl, to those frail lightning-like bones of mine. ❋ Jerry Ratch (2011)
Cynthia was meticulous in the way she dressed, cut her hair, and spoke, but her office was bursting with heaped-up papers and books, an assortment of sneakers, slippers, and comfortable shoes—she considered her tiny feet her best features and she pampered them, as if they were adorable kittens—and a jungle of overgrown plants. ❋ Stephen McCauley (2010)
A rude shove in Kellen's back sent him staggering across the cobbles into the arms of a marketplace stall-holder, who caught him with a garlic-redolent oath just in time to keep him from landing face first in the cart full of the man's neatly heaped-up vegetables. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)
Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as when it fell. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Another effective treatment is a retinoid lotion, which regulates keratinocyte turnover and helps slough off the heaped-up, pointy dead skin cells. ❋ Ellen Marmur (2009)
Habitats on the moon might have to be covered by heaped-up lunar soil, also known as regolith. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Such heaped-up platters of cakes of various and almost indescribable kinds, known only to experienced Dutch housewives! ❋ Jessica Verday (2009)
Clytemnestra's tomb a mingled cup of honey, milk, and frothing wine; then stand upon the heaped-up grave, and proclaim therefrom, "Helen, thy sister, sends thee these libations as her gift, fearing herself to approach thy tomb from terror of the Argive mob"; and bid her harbour kindly thoughts towards me and thee and my husband; towards these two wretched sufferers, too, whom Heaven hath afflicted. ❋ Unknown (2008)
While they, whom no natural tic of kin constrains, have long been here, and some are dead and in their graves beneath the heaped-up cairn, no mean proof of loyalty to the city, and others in harness clad and mounted on their cars, with steadfast soul endure the icy blast and parching heat of the sun, not pledging one another, as thou art wont, in long deep draughts on couches soft. ❋ Unknown (2008)
On leaning over, the eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up mass of shadows. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The heaped-up fire burned scorching clear with the excessive cold of the night. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Look down the table at the public library where people plug in their laptops, and see the heaped-up entanglements of cables and wires. ❋ Unknown (2004)
