224 adjectives to describe pile

Inside, I stood, trying to understand what it meantwhat that little pile of dust and dry bones, on the carpet, meant.

In the mean time the Saguntines, exhausted with famine, the assaults of machines, and the sword, and their fidelity being at last carried to desperation, raised a vast pile in the market-place, on which they destroyed, with fire and sword, themselves, their wives and children, and all that they possessed.

" The Bravo rushed towards those fissures in the venerable but polluted pile he had already striven to open, and with frantic force he endeavored to widen them with his hands.

Inside on the desk, lay neat piles of bills of all denominations, ready to be placed in the vault.

The boat stopped so long to take in an immense pile of corn-bags that our passengers went on shoresuch of them as could climb the slippery bank.

"'For that matter,' said the first, 'though Shunah Shoo is bad enough for any thing where money is in the way, yet it is said that Veenah goes to the funeral pile of her own accord.

On the right, with its ruined mosque and conning-tower grey in the morning light, the massive pile of Shivner frowns over the valley, like some dismasted battleship, hurled upwards into sudden petrifaction by the hands of Titans.

An enormous pile, the barracks of the Anatolian soldiery, hangs over the high bank, and, as we row abreast of it, a fresh breeze comes up from the Sea of Marmora.

It was a solid rather than a stately pile.

Could bill-sticker be so vile As to paste up nasty posters On the sacred classic pile? Greece and Rome yet have their relics,

To go back to the commencement, everything, streets, houses, and bridges are all built upon wooden piles driven into the ground.

Before it was a square pile of boulders about the height of a man's waist, heaped on the top with brushwood so that it looked like a rude altar.

This elegant pile of building has been examined with the greatest minuteness, by numerous architects, both within and without, and by all of them declared to be the work of a master; it being equally convenient as it is elegant.

His head had reached the earth first, and the legs and body were tumbled on it, in a manner to render the form a confused pile of legs and blanket, rather than a bold savage stretched in the repose of death.

From the summit of that stupendous pile of rocks Paul gazed upon the vessel which had borne away Virginia, and which, now ten leagues out at sea, appeared like a black spot in the midst of the ocean.

It is a grand, gloomy old pile, dating from the eleventh centuryone of the few Gothic churches in Germany that have ever been completed.

Bushy Park is an appendage to the palace and honour of Hampton Court; and though far from assimilating to that splendid pile, it is better fitted for rural enjoyment, whilst its contiguity to the metropolis almost gives it the character of rus in urbe.

The castle is a mighty pile; the outward wall has fifteen round towers, besides square towers at the angles.

It has a stylish appearance, eh?" Mathieu then perceived a lofty modern pile, ornamented with balconies and sculpture work, which looked quite out of place among the poor little houses predominating in the district.

On their arrival, they proceeded at once to the residence of Ali Pasha, an extensive rude pile, where they witnessed a scene, not dissimilar to that which they might, perhaps, have beheld some hundred years ago, in the castle-yard of a great feudal baron.

It was an irregular pile, built evidently according to the wants of the different families who had lived in it.

The road leading to this magnificent pile of building is on the left, when you have passed through the turnpike.

Behind the barn we found a whole pile of new knapsacksthe flimsy play-soldier knapsacks of the French infantrymen, not half so heavy or a third so substantial as the heavy sacks of the Germans, which are all bound with straps and covered on the back side with undressed red bullock's hide.

In the deepest thickets I found wood-rat villagesgroups of huts four to six feet high, built of sticks and leaves in rough, tapering piles, like musk-rat cabins.

She remembered that impressive monument to pioneer fortitude which stands in the mountains where the highway runs by Donner Lake; as in a vision she saw the little group that crowns the rugged pile.

224 adjectives to describe  pile