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  • From the shell-reefs of Pointe-au-Fer to the shallows of Pelto Bay the dead lie mingled with the high-heaped drift; from their cypress groves the vultures rise to dispute a share of the feast with the shrieking frigate-birds and squeaking gulls.

    A Memory of Last Island Beach Blogger 2005

  • Among them, in front of them and all about them lay high-heaped the bodies of those who had sought to break them, in vain.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • From the shell-reefs of Pointe-au-Fer to the shallows of Pelto Bay the dead lie mingled with the high-heaped drift; from their cypress groves the vultures rise to dispute a share of the feast with the shrieking frigate-birds and squeaking gulls.

    Archive 2005-08-01 Beach Blogger 2005

  • But to-night no such notions as these intrude; and when the torrent of fun, and transformation, and practical joking which rushed out of the beautiful fairy world gathered up again, the high-heaped happiness of the theatre will disperse itself, and the

    Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Robert Haven Schauffler 1921

  • In one day Scott’s high-heaped money-wages became fairy money and nonentity; in one day the rich man and lord of land saw himself penniless, landless, a bankrupt among creditors.

    Criticisms and Interpretations. I. By Thomas Carlyle 1917

  • It stopped finally, with headlight glaring into the faces of Denny and his troops, and from the high-heaped flat cars tumbled an army of pick-and-shovel men.

    The Iron Trail Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • In one day Scott’s high-heaped money-wages became fairy-money and nonentity; in one day the rich man and lord of land saw himself penniless, landless, a bankrupt among creditors.

    Paras. 50-73 1909

  • Mount, round the shores of which should be gathered the cockle shells that were the emblems of pilgrimage duly performed: though the less active bought them at stalls high-heaped outside the cathedral doors, and the rich had them copied in silver and gold.

    The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901

  • He saw before him a high-heaped assemblage of red-tiled roofs, and above them rose the fretwork of a soaring Gothic spire.

    With the Procession Henry Blake Fuller 1893

  • An hour later the murdered pastor lay in state in the chief apartment of his home, surrounded by burning candles and high-heaped masses of flowers.

    The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study Auguste Groner 1889

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