Heaping

IV. ii.21 (323,6) [and my profit therein, the heaping friendships] [W. reaping] I see not that the present reading is nonsense; the sense of _heaping friendships_ is, though like many other of our author's, unusual, at least unusual to modern ears, is not very obscure. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

There is that other possibility: that you are a bitter psychopath who revels in heaping your hate on what others cherish. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Strewn over the desk, and laying in heaping piles on the tops of bookshelf and on the floor, were papers and books. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Steve Sailer has been way ahead of you in heaping blame on Bush. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is superb Tex-Mex served in heaping portions, perfectly seasoned, beautifully plated and presented by hospitable servers. ❋ Homesick Texan (2006)

It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. ❋ Laban (2006)

“Nay;” and quoth the other, “He who owned this skull was a King of the Kings of the world, who dealt tyrannously with his subjects, specially wronging the weak and wasting his time in heaping up the rubbish of this world, till Allah took his sprite and made the fire his abiding-site; and this is his head.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

For the next few minutes they made common cause in heaping ridicule on 'the political woman.' ❋ Unknown (1907)

But Kirsteen, quite unused to beautiful manufactured things, admired them all, and found a pleasure in heaping together and contrasting with each other the soft silken stuffs, many of them with a sheen of two blended colours called "shot" in those days. ❋ Margaret (1891)

The covetous man in heaping them together is only lading himself with a clay burden, as he dares not enjoy them, and is always anxious about them. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Their opposition was confined at first to scoffs and insults, in heaping which the governors made themselves conspicuous, and circulated all sorts of disparaging reflections that might increase the feelings of hatred and contempt for them in their own party. ❋ Unknown (1871)

It’s not just the transphobia, it’s the racism and classism, too, which these radfems serve up in heaping portions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Soak a heaping tablespoonful of gelatine in two tablespoonfuls of water fifteen minutes. ❋ Henrietta Latham Dwight (N/A)

"This is what I'd call heaping coals of fire on the heads of your enemies!" ventured Bobolink; as he, too, hunted for a broom in the furnace room, and prepared to assist in the work of cleaning up the mess. ❋ George A. Warren (N/A)

We have in some measure, I think, lost the feeling of the past, and even of the future, as regards our own lines of descent; and even as to wealth, it seems to me that the idea of heaping up a pile of gold, or accumulating a broad estate for our children and remoter descendants, is dying out. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

So here I am, ready to dish out my excuses, like some kind of heaping plate of spaghetti with meat sauce. ❋ Michele (2006)

Other nutritionists suggest that the need for seconds could be eliminated by an initial very large, or "heaping," helping. ❋ William Harryman (2007)