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As the last words were spoken, a lump of earth fell from the roof, flattening out the stone-heap, and the Chip only escaped destruction by rolling on one side, where he lay shaking with fright and calling to the Mole-mother to help him.
Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Fanny Barry
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The Chip was sitting upon a little stone-heap against one of the pillars.
Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Fanny Barry
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Without replying, Maigret crossed the road to a stone-heap he had noticed, fetched some big stones and put them on the wall.
Death of a Harbormaster Simenon, Georges 1942
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Up in the stone-heap lay a young gray goose, who cried with joy when the goosey-gander came.
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The boy let the goosey-gander go; and as soon as he was gone, he, in turn, stole up to the stone-heap.
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He made a big jump from the stone-heap, and ran away.
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As he turned to see what it was that had fallen, he distinguished something that moved on a stone-heap close to the wall.
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He stole nearer, and saw the goosey-gander come trudging wearily over the stone-heap, with several long fibres in his mouth.
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A few wing-strokes and he was over by the stone-heap, but now there lay no young gray goose between the stones.
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"I can see myself parading around your ancestral stone-heap with your ducal dad!"
Out of the Primitive Robert Ames Bennet 1912
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