Let us not rhapsodize, or with this little bit of yellow ore, venture to speak of the great piles of grandeur from whose heart it was dug up.

Come while the rose is red, While blue-eyed Summer smiles O'er the green ripples round yon sunken piles Washed by the moon-wave warm from Indian isles,

Piles of cloud, whose darkness was palpable even in the midnight, covered the holy hill.

And as the country was mountainous, and the valleys narrow at the bottom, he enclosed them with piles sunk in the ground, and heaped up mould against them to keep in the water.

This island lying over against Alexandria forms a harbour; but on the upper side it is connected with the town by a narrow way eight hundred paces in length, made by piles sunk in the sea, and by a bridge.

The Tituses, the Trajans, the Antonines, appeared seldom on Christian thrones; on the contrary, mankind has seen, in the name of religion, lighted the piles of persecution, and the blazing torches of intolerance; the earth overspread with corpses of the million victims of fanaticism; the fields watered with blood; the cities wrapped in flames, and empires ravaged with unrelenting rage.

Philosophy, in its more rigid sense, has been at the same work for ages; and after a myriad bald heads have wagged over the problem, and piles of words have been heaped one upon another into dry and cloudy volumes without end, philosophy has the honour of laying before us, with modest pride, her contribution towards the subject: that life is a Permanent Possibility of Sensation.

The huts of the people, built upon piles, are to be seen thickly scattered about its banks, and particularly about its broad mouths.

The houses were built of boards and were placed upon piles elevated five feet above the ground.

By ten o'clock the piles of vegetables are sensibly diminished.

All day chuprassis, like attendant angels, flit in and out bearing piles of documents marked Urgent, which they heap on his writing-table.

Turn down a side street, walk a little way and you are in a nest of mean streets, unpaved, dirty, smelling vilely, lined with open booths, where squat half-naked men selling lumps of sticky sweetmeats and piles of things that look like unbaked scones and other strange eatables; and little naked babies tumble in the dust with goats and puppies.

Piles of beasts, which lay every where through the whole route, afforded a necessary bed for temporary repose to those seeking any place which was not under water.

It reminded me of the Salem fire, through which, while the piles of debris were still smoking, I had been taken in the "Boston Journal's" car.

Across the moat, which led to the gateway of what were formerly the inner fortifications, were piles of rotting horseflesh.

For an hour we walked through the silence of ashes and stone, stumbling over timber and debris, tangled and twisted wire, a fallen statue, broken bells or the cross-piece of a spire; we made our way through piles of beds, chairs, singed mattresses, and stepped over the carcass of a horse with its belly bloated and flies feasting on its glassy eyes.

Ten shillings a column is our magnificent rate of payment, and we can hardly afford that" Then he began pulling out one book and another from the piles of all sorts that lay around him.

On reaching some arduous height the toiling Indian would address a few words of thanks to Pachacamac; and the piles of stones, which were the simple signs of their gratitude, are still visible in all parts of the country.

This quarter of Canton, however, is not the handsomest, because all the warehouses are erected on the sides of the canals, where the different workmen have also taken up their residence in miserable huts that, built half upon the ground and half upon worm-eaten piles, stretch far out over the water.

At the top he found himself on a narrow railway track which ran between huge piles of rusty scrap-iron.

These piles, separated by tracks, extended in every direction he could not tell how far, though in the distance he could see the vague outlines of some great factory-like building.

So he took to his heels for the beach, colliding with another man with a dark lantern who came running around the end of one of the piles of iron.

Well, I'm afraid there ain't any taffy in it now; but there's piles and piles of lovely new clippings you ain't seen.

Well, I'm afraid there ain't any taffy in it now; but there's piles and piles of lovely new clippings you ain't seen.

The very doors and window shutters had been torn off and carried into the field, several acres of which were strewed over with piles of such furniture.