Beyond this is a raised floor covered with matting, and along the farther end a divan, whose piled cushions are the most tempting trap ever set to catch a lazy man.

Alongside the fence, which enclosed the yard, some thirty or forty horses and cattle were tied, with no protection against the rain, and in the yard were wagons piled with packing cases, where sheep, calves, hogs, and chickens were shut in.

To have a boat, with all her iron, lances, gear, and oars, piled on one's head in such a sea, was rather a startling prospect to the best swimmer.

The short sellers piled on, selling borrowed stock, driving the price down in order to frighten investors into dumping their shares.

They piled into the car and drove back down to the sunny fields on the leeward side.

It had struck just outside the busiest part of the camp, aimed very likely at the stores piled there.

It never stopped, this bakery, night or day, and the bread was piled up in a big tent near by like cord-wood.

The wind did not soon go down, it could not; neither could I with my utmost strength dive downwards through the piled-up, violent waves that still rushed and roared, bounded and snapped with wild force.

Oh, no, it is only a mass of sponges piled together and branching out as they grow.

Many others were bringing offerings, candles for the altar, poultry, which were piled, a living mass, legs tied, in the corner of the church, and small sums of money, which were recorded by an ancient man in a mighty book.

The sun shone with a pale, watery gleam, grey clouds were piled along the horizon, and a moaning wind crept through the pine trees, made the birch leaves quiver, and thinned the foliage of the alders at the foot of the rapids.

"Phil, we shall have to be quick this morning, or we shall have to come crawling home round the shore instead of rowing straight across the bay," Katherine said, as she piled bundles of pelts into the boat, and tied over them a canvas sheet, for security from any chance wave.

First, with plenty of noise and clatter, she piled the dirty crockery ready for washing, and, filling the stove with wood, set a kettle of water on to get hot.

While the wind whistled, and the snow drifted about our dwelling, we piled the wood higher in our ample fire-place, and seated ourselves again, to resume the conversation, when I was startled by a loud and furious knocking at the door.

I hastened to the place, where I found, as he had said, what was saved from the fire piled up in the street and the fire extinguished.

They piled more wood on the blazing fire, making it a beacon light to those who were watching from afar; they sang songs, told tales, and for the time being drove homesickness from our hearts.

And every day my dressing-table would be piled high with checks and money orders and paper money sent direct to me instead of to the bank.

After having interviewed the deputy collector, we were admitted to a great pen or corral in the middle of the pier, which is inclosed by a high fence, and there found all our luggage piled up together on a bench.

The barracks were desolatethe cannon dismountedand grass sufficient to have grazed a whole herd, had sprung up in the courts, and among the pyramids of shot and shells piled up at the embrazures.

Their baggage was piled over the hoods, buckled on the running boards.

Streets are piled in every direction with mounds of cotton, which rise as high as the roofs; storehouses are bursting with bales; steam and hydraulic presses hiss in your ear at every tenth step, and beneath their power the downy fibre is compressed into a substance as hard as Aberdeen granite, which semi-nude negroes bind, roll, and wheel in all directions, the exertion keeping them in perpetual self-supplying animal steam-baths.

On arriving, piled up with goods mountain high, scarce does a bow touch the levee, when swarms of Irish and niggers rush down, and the mountainous pile is landed, and then dragged off by sturdy mules to its destination.

There are in Freeland 10,743,747 females; divide that number by 500,000, and you will find that every twentieth woman in your dominions isOh! horror piled on horror!a harlot!'

Monday, the third, Elizabeth and I tackled the provisions which were piled high on the table in the servants' hall.

There in the pale moonlight I beheld a long stream of carriages and wagons of every description piled high with household goods, and filled with women and children.