49 collocations for stack

They stacked their arms in front of the State House, where the Congress was then sitting, and refused to disband, when requested by Col. Alexander Hamilton, as the representative of the Congress, to do so.

IV RESULTS OF SUPPLEMENTARY TESTS OF IDEATIONAL BEHAVIOR 1. Julius, Pongo pygmaeus Box Stacking Experiment

They played good chancey poker, but the man in the linen coat did morehe stacked the cards!

Strange how the cards fall even if we stack the deck.

FIGURE 27.The act of stacking the boxes.

Very soon they had stacked great piles of kindling about the gallows' weather-beaten timberstwigs below, faggots abovecunningly ordered and higher than Beltane's head.

They drove up a stob, nailed a piece to a tree stacked their guns.

The same person, for some act of disobedience, on the part, I think, of the same slave, when employed in stacking straw, felled her to the earth with the handle of a pitch fork.

Higgins told me to-day, if you don't let your head swell, there won't be a fellow in the department can stack up his sales-book any higher.

It is a primitive and homely ware, still fine in shape, though dull in color and monotonous in pattern; and stacked on the red earth under the olives, the rows of jars and cups, in their unglazed and unpainted state, showed their classical descent more plainly than after they have been decorated.

While she stacked up the dishes, Katy John observed: "Goodness sakes, Miss Benton, them fellers was fresh at supper.

Horrid work, I call it," Katherine cried with a shudder, as, gathering up the frozen fish, she proceeded to stack them on the sledge in much the same fashion as she might have stacked billets of firewood.

It should be extraordinarily warm and comfortable, for in addition to this double coating of insulation, dry seaweed in quilted sacking, I propose to stack the pony fodder all around it.

'Twas ever thus since childhood's hour, when my maiden Aunt Susan took the raisin' of me. Take any form thou wilt but this, and my firm nerve ain't goin' to tremble; but stacked again this form, my nerve is floppin' like a hotel wash in a hurricane.'

" "I've heard talk of these streaks of greased lightnin'," said Buck, with a touch of scorn, "but I'll stack old Mike agin the best of them.

As he counted the piles of bank-bills on his employers' counter, or stacked up heaps of coin, in his ordinary business, he fancied himself another Ali Baba, in a cave to which he had found the Open Sesame, and he could hardly contain himself till the time should come when he should take possession of his unimaginable wealth.

From them arose a sort of steam, or mist, and through this mist the men could hardly be seen as they stacked away the ice.

Beyond that fifty-yard stream lay the enemy, reported now to be stacking up drive impedimenta.

At e'en, in the gloaming, nae swankies are roaming 'Bout stacks wi' the lasses at bogle to play; But ilk ane sits eerie, lamenting her dearie The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.

Up rose the flames high and higher until they began to lick, pale-tongued, about the gibbet's two great supporting timbers, and ever as they rose, Walkyn and Roger, Giles and the friar, laboured amain, stacking logs near by wherewith to feed the fires.

Then they discovered that we had stacked a lot of useless, decayed railroad ties in the backyard of the section house, and they reduced these into stove lengths.

Coir-coloured cargo bales are stacked round both masts, and her decks are crammed and double-crammed with dark-skinned passengersfrom the foc's'le where they interfere with the crew to the stern where they hamper the wheel.

The church must have looked like a builder's yard in 1643 when the Committee and Council of War pulled down divers houses outside Bishop's and Spon Gates and stacked the materials here, while the changes of government are indicated by the payment in 1647 of 3s.

" Terry was stacking her music.

But slashed right across this pretty picture was a long trail of marching mensome red, some green, some blue, some blackzigzagging over the plain and choking the roads, one end so close that we could shout to them, as they stacked their muskets on the ridge at our left, and the other end lost among the woods as far as we could see.

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