796 examples of stacks in sentences

Those piles of horses and those stacks of men I have seen again and again.

And the deadthose piles of horses and those stacks of men!

And they used to make piratical expeditions down to Lynn in eight oars, to attack bargemen, and fen girls, and shoot ducks, and sleep under turf-stacks, and come home when they had drank all the public-house taps dry.

What troubled him more than that was the imminent danger to half-a-dozen other stacks nearly adjoining it.

These threatened to ignite the contiguous stacks.

I managed to save the other stacks.

At assembly for the march the men fall in in rear or the stacks fully equipped for marching.

When the national or regimental colors are taken from the stacks of the color line, the color bearer and guard, or the sergeant of the guard, unarmed, and two armed privates as a guard, will escort the colors to the colonel's quarters, as prescribed for the color guard in the drill regulations of the arm of the service to which the guard belongs. 90.

If a color line is established, sufficient sentinels are placed on the color line to guard the colors and stacks.

Color sentinels are posted only so long as the stacks are formed.

When stacks are broken, the color sentinels may be permitted to return to their respective companies.

If the colors are on the stacks, the salute will be made on crossing the color line or on passing the colors.

He will not permit any soldier to take arms from the stacks or to touch them except by order of an officer or noncommissioned officer of the guard.

After a while, however, we decided that they were houses interspersed with trees; but the trees proved to be stacks of hay and lentils, heaped on the flat roofs.

"I wrote you stacks of letters," he said, "and you never sent me one little line; not even 'Yours received and contents noted!'

He works away, and mighty piles of wood grow up; he makes a street of them, a town, built up of stacks and piles of wood.

He had stacks of cordwood to pay with, and some building bark from last year's cut, not to speak of heavy timber.

There was the bull, mischievous beast, would take to butting at the lichen stacks; and as for the goats, they were high and low and everywhere, even to the roof of the hut.

The shed and the other makeshift places were emptied now, and all the hay brought into the barn; the corn was reaped, dried in stacks, and carted in.

He had got his mind into a fairly quiescent state by then which made the trick it played when he first caught sight of the great stacks of Tribunes and Heralds on the corner news-stand all the more terrifying.

This is a great hayfield, and the people come from far to cut and store the hay for the winter, when they harness the stacks and drag them bodily to their villages on the snow, which sometimes falls, they told me, to the depth of fifteen or more feet.

While all the others were in the kitchen, they arranged on a side table in the dining-room stacks of tin trays, knives, forks, spoons, and paper napkins.

In the ordinary photograph, distant hills are lost through overexposure, yet the foreground seems underexposed, and yellow straw-stacks and bright autumn leaves appear black.

In the chlorophyl photograph, the distant hills are not overexposed, nor is the foreground underexposed; the yellow straw-stacks appear nearly white, and bright autumn leaves contrast strongly with the dark green about them.

I confess that I hope the pile contained stacks of incomparable masterpieces if the sacrifice made that one real moment more real.

796 examples of  stacks  in sentences