Sentence examples for heaps of earth from inspiring English sources

Miners in Tanzania had been sending heaps of earth containing metallic ore to Asia and Europe for smelting, but the content and quality had always been a contentious issue.

My brother hoisted the shovel as our father barked a strategy for digging up and exchanging heaps of earth that rivaled the most complex chess defense.

Mud bricks lack the durability of the marble of Greece or the limestone of Egypt, leaving behind little more than heaps of earth.

After this sea-fight, Xerxes, enraged at his ill-fortune, attempted, by casting great heaps of earth and stones into the sea, to stop up the channel and make a dam, upon which he might lead his land-forces over into the island of Salamis.

The mine itself doesn't look like much, of course — just a huge gash in the ground, ringed by heaps of earth displaced by the diggers and the trucks.

There have been 350-pound steel cutters, a 70-foot-long tunnel-boring machine and heaps of Manhattan schist.

In "American Splendor," as the cartoonist Harvey Pekar, he dragged his miseries around the deserted lots and slag heaps of Cleveland.

Understanding the history of the ancient Roman book requires us to think differently about this evidence, placing it into the context of other kinds of textual forms that survive in greater numbers, from the fragments of Greek papyri preserved in the garbage heaps of Egypt to the Latin graffiti still visible on the walls of the cities destroyed by Vesuvius.

"Heaps of New Zealanders have a bit of a thing about Asian drivers, so that might have started it too".

Like the show, Goldberg serves up heaps of Miami's lush life and low lifes while exposing its drug and arms underworld.

When my sister found out I was listening to a heaps of Floyd around the house she stumbled across this shirt at Savers for $3 on a trip to Melbourne.