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Sentences ending with heap

And when I took you off to the schooner, he gave me an hundred directions how to care for you, and then his sorrow bowled him all in a heap. [9]
I forthwith hastened to her, pressed the little packet which Mistress Grosz had given me into her hand--for I had it still hidden in my poke--and, whispered to her: "I had two of them, little Ann; make haste and pour them on the heap. [10]
My luck always seems to be at the bottom of the heap. [8]
The place was formerly occupied by a shiftless fellow, a tailor; and the court, now a paradise, had been a rubbish heap. [9]
It had fifty-four columns around it, but only six are standing now--the others lie broken at its base, a confused and picturesque heap. [5]
That Masson must be struck of a heap. [11]
I was thrown all in a heap. [9]

Short sentences using heap

Dam stove heap gone! [5]

More example sentences with the word heap in them

You're not forty yet, and you have a heap of money laid by. [9]
Ay, then she would be free to heap pleasure on pleasure. [10]
It was level with the ground, a crumpled heap of ruins. [11]
When the doctor who had been called arrived, Carmen was in a heap by the low couch, one arm thrown across the body, and her head buried in the cushion close to his. [4]
At the inn which they had now reached Justinus got out and desired his companion, a pale-faced man who sat sunk into a heap, to do the same; but with a weary shake of the head he declined to move. [10]
The first story, which is still standing, in the midst of a heap of ruins, is 260 feet high. [10]
Every trench dug where the paving was torn up had its object, and each heap of stones its particular design. [10]
She was glad when she saw the young braves bring a long sapling from the forest, and, digging a hole, put it stoutly in the ground, and fetch wood, and heap it about. [11]
If rejected, it went into the heap on the left; if approved, it was laid apart, to be submitted to the Committee for their judgment. [6]
The whole house was, in the common language of the newspaper reports, "a perfect tinder-box," and would probably be a heap of ashes in half an hour. [6]
The tempting heap was fast rising in an elegant many-hued hemisphere; but her thoughts were not in her occupation, for tears were coursing each other down her cheeks. [10]
She was a venerable rack- heap, and a fraud to boot; for she was playing herself for personal property, whereas the good honest dirt was so thickly caked all over her that she was righteously taxable as real estate. [5]
She was enthroned upon a heap of drift-wood, and when I caught sight of her face I forgot the very existence of the police captain. [9]
He pulled out two old yellow sermons from a heap of such, and began looking over that for the forenoon. [6]
He, however, appeared to take no notice, though he watched his outrageous pursuer out of the corner of his eye, as he quietly gave orders to a porter concerning a little heap of luggage. [11]
Deserted Moscow had to burn as inevitably as a heap of shavings has to burn on which sparks continually fall for several days. [2]
Sometimes we come to a settler's cabin and see it all smoking; sometimes to a fort and find only a heap of bones--and other things! [11]
I point to this heap that you may remember it, when we are parted one from the other. [10]
He remembered that there was a heap of flour- bags near where the man stood when the match was thrown down; and that some loose strings for tying were also in a pile beside the bags. [11]
Four minutes are then to be devoted to scraping the powder into a heap, and the second third of the hundred grains of sugar of milk to be added. [3]
Let us burn them all in a heap out in the yard. [6]
He staggered to the wall, and then came to the floor in a heap as the bear lurched downwards and fell over on its side, dead. [11]
Evening came, and the richest, most flourishing commercial capital in the world was here a heap of ashes, there a ruin, everywhere a plundered treasury. [10]
I landed on the island and watched with great interest the men as they pried, twisted and tumbled the pile to get at the key-log which, found and loosened, would send the heap into the water. [11]
With a shudder the body collapsed in a formless heap, and the tailor-man was gone to tell of the work he had done for his faith on earth. [11]
At first the spring had lost itself in a heap of moss-covered granite blocks and afterwards in the earth; but now the overflow and trickling away of the precious fluid had been stopped and a reservoir formed whence the cattle also could drink. [10]
At last he spoke aloud: "There shall be an heap of corn in the earth, high upon the hills; his fruit shall shake like Libanus, and shall be green in the city like grass upon the earth. [11]
I'd have killed so many that there'd have been a heap of them. [2]
Billy had remained silent--Billy, whom he had so befriended, had let decent men heap scorn and reproaches on his memory. [11]
There I am shown a heap of stuff, with more colors and shades than I had supposed existed in all the world. [4]
Besides his old shoes, the crowned monarch charitably gave Newport a little heap of corn, only seven or eight bushels, and with this little result the absurd expedition returned to Jamestown. [4]
For a moment she stood like one transfixed, staring at the place whence he had vanished, then, with a moan, she sank in a heap on the floor, and rocked to and fro like one demented. [11]
As she entered, she saw a heap moving in one corner--a lion lately bought. [11]
They found the sharp new heap they were seeking, and ensconced themselves within the protection of three great elms that grew in a bunch within a few feet of the grave. [5]
Nell had scarcely settled herself on a little heap of straw in one corner, when she fell asleep, for the first time that day. [12]
We predict a Saragossa defense, and that if Charleston is taken it will be only a heap of ruins. [7]
Opposite to him rose a heap of loose straw, beneath which something stirred from time to time, and from which at short intervals a slight cough was heard. [10]
The employed must recognize the necessity of an accumulated fund of capital, and on the other hand the employer must be as anxious to have about him a contented, prosperous community, as to heap up money beyond any reasonable use for it. [4]
Had it been possible she, who was of no importance to any one, would willingly have lain down on the heap of straw in the place of the mother upon whom two young lives depended. [10]
While the market place in Tennis was filling, Archias's white house had become a heap of smouldering ruins. [10]
In a third place a crowd of bees, crushing one another, attack some victim and fight and smother it, and the victim, enfeebled or killed, drops from above slowly and lightly as a feather, among the heap of corpses. [2]
But while, when on the road with Loni's band, if they could reach no town, she had often slept soundly and sweetly on a heap of straw, here she spent one restless night after another. [10]
These being cast on the floor in a promiscuous heap, yielded a quantity of occupation in arranging, erecting, and putting away; the superintendence of which task evidently afforded the old gentleman extreme delight, and engaged him for some time with great briskness and activity. [12]
But she was of those who do not know what they are, or what they think and feel, till some explosion forces open the doors of their souls and they look upon a new life over a heap of ruins. [11]
From the front-windows of the mansion the eye reached a far blue mountain-summit,--no rounded heap, such as often shuts in a village-landscape, but a sharp peak, clean-angled as Ascutney from the Dartmouth green. [6]
At the bottom of the incline was an immense heap of weathered sandstone all crumbling to dust, but there were no huge rocks as large as houses, such as rested so lightly and frightfully above, waiting patiently and inevitably to crash down. [13]
Was the Duke of Pomerani; wrong when he told me of a heap of gold----" "No, Your Majesty," Heinz here interrupter without raising his eyes. [10]
What is it, of all your experiences, of all your thoughts, of all your misdoings, that lies at the very bottom of the great heap of acts of consciousness which make up your past life? [6]
That's the kind of a bug Henry was; and if we'd a had him along 'stead of our kings he'd a fooled that town a heap worse than ourn done. [5]
And yet no; not indeed paralyzed, for it has been powerful and swift to move only to heap new woes upon us. [10]
It was of no more weight than chaff, and its whole mass was like a heap of straw, which flew up as soon as Polykarp laid his love--a hundredweight of pure gold, in the other scale. [10]
Sitting silent and motionless on a heap of straw against the wall, Pierre sometimes opened and sometimes closed his eyes. [2]
He politely asked me if I would take a little paper from a heap there was lying by the plate, and add a sovereign to the collection already there. [6]
There's always a lot to do among the people in the village, one way and another, and I've a heap of reading on, and what more does a fellow want? [11]
By the flickering light of a handful of fire he saw Lepage--rather what was left of him--a shadow of energy, a heap of nerveless bones. [11]
A few minutes later he lay upon a heap of magnolia branches breathing his life away. [11]
That trip East last summer did her a heap of good. [9]
They ain't the kind o' Catholics we been used to; some sort of 'Piscopalians; and they do a heap o' good amongst the poor folks over there. [8]
How she caught it up and tore it into little shreds, and then could not be easy until she had burned the small heap of pieces-- But these are things which every honorable reader will consider imparted in strict confidence. [6]
The moon made it just like daylight, only a heap softer; and once we see a lion standing all alone by himself, just all alone on the earth, it seemed like, and his shadder laid on the sand by him like a puddle of ink. [5]
They came confusedly into his mind like a heap of broken mosaics,--sometimes a part of the picture complete in itself, sometimes connected fragments, and sometimes only single severed stones. [6]
This we made into heavy, compact snow-balls, and piled them up in a bright, luxurious heap for inspection. [5]
The sunlight streamed in over a woman, lying upon a heap of dried flowers in a corner. [11]
Her helpers sat in little circles on the ground; in the midst of each lay a great heap of fresh and dry plants, and in front of each work-woman a number of parcels of the selected roots, leaves, and flowers. [10]
The fire is in front: it is not a fire, but a conflagration--a vast heap of green logs set on fire--of pitch, and split dead-wood, and crackling balsams, raging and roaring. [4]
I am falling in a heap, hold me up higher Antaeus and Atlas. [10]
But of course I forgot all about driving slow on accounts of being glad and full of thinking; so I got home a heap too quick for that length of a trip. [5]
Judge, I'd a heap rather go down and jump off the stern of my boat than step in here and tell him I'd fight for the North. [9]
We've got a heap of Yankees in the town, and they all flock together and pray together. [9]
It is a heap of money. [5]
This is what he says --the italics [''] are mine: "However the mischief may have been wrought--'and at this day no one can wish to heap blame an any buried head'--" So it is poor Harriet, after all. [5]
The old man had long gazed gloomily at the ground, but he suddenly interrupted the silence and said: "In Succoth I erected a heap of stones and called upon the Lord to be a witness between us. [10]
The Emperor's commands had come upon the peaceful little house as a whirlwind comes on a heap of leaves. [10]
The prefect Titianus had come to him with a whole heap of papers, to work with him and his private secretary. [10]
Paid it in gold,--had a great heap of twenty-dollar pieces. [6]
But I would give a heap to be there. [5]
I thought he even looked as if he were thinking, with complacent vanity, that his own skull would look well on top of the heap and his own ribs add a charm to the frescoes which possibly they lacked at present. [5]
In their broken English they said, "By'm-by, heap water! [5]
The man's head dropped back like the lid of a pot, and he tumbled into a heap of the faded golden-rod flower which spattered the field. [11]
Every word the dragoman spoke breathed the scorn which a mean and narrow-minded man is always ready to heap on those who share the kindness of his own benefactors. [10]
It may burn down like a heap of straw, it is all the same to me--I shall lie here and drink. [10]
If Tom were doing that, or was even trying to do it, the judge would be a heap better satisfied with him. [5]
A three-cornered note, directed in a very delicate lady's-hand, was distinguishable among a heap of papers. [6]
All this had cost many talents, a whole heap of gold; but Alexandria was wealthy, and ready to make even greater sacrifices if only they had been accepted with thanks and condescension. [10]
It's trouble, Doctor; 'cos Massa Veneer bright man naterally,--'n' he's got a great heap o' books. [6]
The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! [6]
Then, suddenly she came huddling in a heap, and burst into tears. [11]
Ye hear the call of civilisation, but we heap the Muezzin--" He stopped, and searched mechanically for his watch. [11]
The second day brought no better luck, nor yet the third the divers had seen no vestige of a wreck, nor any sign of treasure--nothing except four skeletons in a heap, tied together with a chain, where the water was deepest. [11]
Then was King Arthur ware where Sir Mordred leaned upon his sword among a great heap of dead men. [5]
Thus the pendulum appeared to change its direction, and its deviation was shown on a graduated arc, or by the marks it left in a little heap of sand which it touched as it swung. [6]
Then he gasped and came to the ground in a heap, with the silver hugged in his arms. [11]
They were but an atom, here, in a mountain heap of misery, the very sight of which increased their hopelessness and suffering. [12]
All the dynamic agencies of the universe are pledged to hold it just in that position, and there it will lie until it becomes a heap of red-brown rust. [6]
By and by a proud-looking man about fifty-five--and he was a heap the best dressed man in that town, too--steps out of the store, and the crowd drops back on each side to let him come. [5]
You heap up a million tons of hewn rocks on a square mile or two of earth which was green once. [6]
But it takes a heap out of a man, getting scared. [11]
She sank in a heap on the ground. [11]
She was sorting a heap of dark and light-colored roots, which lay in her lap. [10]
Must have been a great heap of things leftover. [6]

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