And everywhere were piles of junk: nuts and bolts, springs, batteries, empty soda bottles, a plastic hair band, a harmonica, a thermometer, all sleeping quietly in the dust.
In a furious confusion of dust and whirling wings, about 50 hyacinth macaws, three and a half feet long, descend in purple flashes onto piles of palm nuts that Lourival has put out.
I have to be dragged out of the turron shops, vintage lovelies heaving with piles of honeyed nut sweetmeats, or the horchaterias for the town's beloved chufa (tigernut) milk drink, sold with – don't snigger – fartons: long sugary buns for dipping.
Down the left side of the main building are stalls selling wholesale goods like toilet plungers and kitchen utensils, spices and nuts and piles of dried chilies in hessian sacks.
Scientists and engineers have been struggling to understand the behavior of flowing fluids -- which can be liquids and gases, but also piles of sand or heaps of mixed nuts -- for centuries, but mysteries in the field still remain.
For a car that's not as fast as the Subaru WRX but costs about as much already, that may be a lot to swallow, but considering that Acura Integra/RSX nuts already pour piles of cash into altering their cars, we think this is a smart move by Acura.
MOMOFUKU KO'S FROZEN FOIE GRAS David Chang turned a classic torchon into flakes piled high, like an incongruously fatty and liver-y Sno-Kone, over a brittle of nuts and a sweet wine gelée.
(Also: nuts. Eat lots of nuts, basically).
High friction is needed for the satisfactory functioning of nuts and bolts, paper clips, and tongs, as well as in the familiar processes of walking, gripping objects manually, and building piles of sand or of apples.
