Each June the great pile of stones that is the New York State Capitol in Albany doubles as a legislative bakery, and its denizens serve up a stream of outlandish delights for their favored clients.
"The crossings agreement has joined the great pile of sand in which the Mitchell, Tenet, Zinni and the roadmap plans have been buried," Israeli journalist Aluf Benn wrote in July 2006 in the daily newspaper Haaretz, referring to earlier US initiatives.
Ed Loewenton, Morrisville, Vt.: You say "All of this, and a great pile of similar commentary, was written in the first few days of the ground war".
The sand looks greeny blue, and the great piles of black seaweed with moon glints look alive.
He was impressed by the fact checking and the speed of reporters, not to mention the great piles of junk on their desks.
The stacks are managed by fully automated cranes on rails, which glide around arranging the great piles of containers in the right order for collection, like obsessively tidy robots.
This great horizontal pile of marble was the center of fashionable Gotham life when it opened, in 1846, as A. T. Stewart's Dry Goods Store.
And it gave me I know not what strange feeling to look at the living forest that surrounded this great gray pile so closely, the jungle luxuriant and gay in the sunlight, a sea of different greens; and to know that there all around me had once stood a multitudinous city".
There was a great pile of ribs to freeze for summer barbecues.
Gail: The Republican Orca – stop me before I fall into a great pile of Moby Dick analogies.
