ant-heaps

It does not follow: there are strange depths of idleness in man, a too-easily-got sufficiency, as in the case of the sago-eaters, often quenching the desire for all besides; and it is possible that the men of the richest ant-heaps may sink even into squalor.

Lay Morals 2005

Stepping toe-pointed over the ant-heaps, walking straight and near and silent, she showed no knowledge of what she was going for, only that she was going with me.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

There is something a trifle "animal" in these villages, rough clusters of bee's-comb or ant-heaps or beavers 'lodgings as they might be, assuming exactly the shade of their surroundings, as nests the colour of their hiding-places, or as the kh [= a] ki-coloured sand-lizard, desert-lark, and sand-grouse of the great Sahara take on the yellow-ochre tone of that desert.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

Many ant-heaps out in the country are so large as to be conspicuous objects.

India and the Indians Edward Fenton Elwin

An interesting little note too may be made of the fact that the garnets of Arizona are principally found on ant-heaps, being brought to the surface by the ants and thrown aside as obstructions only fit for the waste-basket.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

These white lines are the new railroads of England, and the myriad ant-heaps along them are the navvies.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

Like ant-heaps of tremendous dimensions stood these monuments of toil -- rock-writings, telling of the heat and desire, the madness of man to be rich.

The Furnace of Gold Philip Verrill Mighels

The surprise of the rest on seeing the fuse alight took the form of helter-skeltering away, some rushing against the railway fence, others almost breaking their necks over ant-heaps, while some only got away a few yards before the explosion took place.

In the Shadow of Death P. H. Kritzinger

Banneker might have added that one who had once known cities and the hearts of men from the viewpoint of that modern incarnation of Ulysses, the hobo, contemptuous and predatory, was little likely to be overawed by the most teeming and headlong of human ant-heaps.

Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

As the dots mingle with the ant-heaps on the plain, or are lost in the folds of the grey prairie, a pillar of dust rises from the centre of the fan.

On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913