Which preposition to use with piled
Inside, I stood, trying to understand what it meantwhat that little pile of dust and dry bones, on the carpet, meant.
He was standing bolt upright with his back to the wind, a tuft of snow piled on his square shoulders, a monument of passive endurance.
If you'll listen a moment, may be you'll find that he has a friend in the neighborhood now who will drive a pile in another place.
She dropped, even in her hat and jacket, against the divan piled with fat-looking satin cushions.
In a moment, the reserves came tumbling out, struggling into their coats; there was a clatter of hoofs in the street as the wagon dashed up; the reserves piled into it, permitting me to crowd in beside them, Grady jumped to the seat beside the driver, and we were off at a gallop, our gong waking the echoes of the silent street.
Like a poor starveling I wander in the haunts of wealth where the buildings are piled to forty stories, and I spin out the ciphers in my brain in an endeavor to compute the amount that is laid up inside.
Copps's "Mining" and the two works on "Parliamentary Law" piled at the end of the box served as a pillow.
He now attempts to approach the pile for the purpose of rescuing her, but is forcibly held back until the wretched Veenah is enveloped in flames.
Fresh bark was in the tanner's vat, and the fresh chopped lightwood stood piled against the baker's oven.
How terribly they carried out that purpose the number of rebel slain piled around the vicinity of his body fearfully attest.
Patsy made a rush for it, but before she could reach the table half a dozen more papers had been piled above it, and gathering speed the great press hummed busily and the pile of Tribunes grew as if by magic.
They cannot pierce through iron, however, and so iron plates or nails are used to protect the piles from their onslaughts.
Mrs. B.'s and Mrs. Trimmer's nonsense lay in piles about.
Ants and ground squirrels were getting ready for their summer work, rubbing their benumbed limbs, and sunning themselves on the husk-piles before their doors, and spiders were busy mending their old webs, or weaving new ones.
In some places, where the lines had made a stand, they lay in piles like winrows of hay, while the intervals between were more thinly sprinkled.
Was it our ancient wall, the circuit piled By loving Gods, so savagely hath rent Thy curls, these little flowers innocent That were thy mother's garden, where she laid Her kisses; here, just where the bone-edge frayed Grins white aboveAh heaven, I will not see!
During the summer they explored the coast of Venezuela ("Little Venice"), a name first given by Ojeda to a gulf of the Caribbean Sea, on the shores of which were cabins built on piles over the water, reminding him of Venice in Italy.
"There were holes in the ceiling of the nave and sparks began to fall through them into a great heap of straw, ten feet high and twenty yards long, which the Germans had piled along the north aisle.
A little group of men with picks, shovels, and wheelbarrows were reducing the "dump" of winter pay, piled beside a windlass, conveying it to the sluices.
And the great barns were piled behind it, long roof-trees, steep, mouse-coloured slopes and peaks above grey walls.
Boxes and sacks were piled near the wharf, and from over behind the hills, with startling nearness, came the nervous Crack... crack... crack-crack-crack!
On April 17, 1498, a scaffold, dreadful to look on, was erected in the public square of Florence; two piles of large pieces of wood, mixed with fagots and broom, which should quickly take fire, extended each eighty feet long, four feet thick, and five feet high; they were separated by a narrow space of two feet, to serve as a passage by which the two priests were to enter and pass the whole length of the piles during the fire.
Against a very large wooden tower which was brought up to the town, the Roman consul raised up another considerably higher from the wall itself; for he had made use of the wall, which was pretty high of itself, as a platform, placing strong piles as supports.
I didn't count on gettin' a big pile out of old Groppeltacker,it wasn't likely he was that kind of a man,but whatever I did get would be clean profit, and I might as well try it on.
The boxes of lunch were neatly piled under a tree, and sweaters were left with them, for it was comfortably warm even in the shadiest spots.