| 单词 | rubbish heap |
| 例句 | The left bank was a great rubbish heap of rotting weed among the trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Foraging in the woods and rubbish heaps, gathering fallen grain-heads in the autumn—these were honorable ways to gamer a meal, requiring time and work. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Muriel, the goat, could read somewhat better than the dogs, and sometimes used to read to the others in the evenings from scraps of newspaper which she found on the rubbish heap. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The old man’s memory was nothing but a rubbish heap of details. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Metal arms labored mightily at the rubbish heap brought down by the last blast. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Throughout the first few scoldings, Tree-ear had braced himself, ready for the pummeling that would surely follow, like those he had endured when caught raiding a rubbish heap. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z News of a wedding, for example, meant that the bride’s family would be preparing much food in the days preceding the ceremony; their rubbish heap would merit special attention during that time. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z What will he do after he pulls me out of this disgusting rubbish heap? Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Tree-ear had been trotting along the road on his early- morning perusal of the village rubbish heaps. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Show him the pieces from the rubbish heap! A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The pickings from their rubbish heaps had become richer in consequence, and for the first time Tree-ear was able to forget about his stomach for a few hours each day. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The rubbish heap was still there, breeding its multigenerational population of feral dogs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Or a little boy who has to pick through the rubbish heap to earn money for his family. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Min picked up the rest of the box set and tossed it too on the rubbish heap. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z This time he did not zigzag between rubbish heaps but strode purposefully toward a small house set apart from the others at a curve in the road. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z It had been his greatest worry—how Crane-man would eat while he was away Of course, his friend could always go back to rifling rubbish heaps and foraging in the woods. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Min picked it up and tossed it on the rubbish heap at the side of the yard. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z A dead dog was lying on a rubbish heap; a woman with a goitre was looking for lice in the hair of a small girl. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered how once, long ago, sniffing over a farm rubbish heap with Fiver, he had come upon a similar object—large, smooth and flat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Did you know there are children who are forced to work in the rubbish heap? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The policeman leads me across a yard where flies swarm over a rubbish heap. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Tree-ear knew every potter in the village, but until recently he had known them only for their rubbish heaps. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The rubbish heap seemed to come alive as I walked through it, sucking at my slippers like a hungry beast. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It's a rubbish heap, flooded and still warming uncontrollably. 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson – review 2012-06-14T07:00:03Z The programme was recognised for covering subjects ranging from China's real estate bubble to people in Paraguay who make musical instruments from items on their town's rubbish heap. BBC World News wins two Emmy awards 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z He's been tethered all his life to a post near a rubbish heap. Get past the goat: Playwright Glen Berger talks about 'Glowworm' in Seattle 2011-04-07T19:30:08Z His wealth comes from London's rubbish heaps, and when the son appears drowned the will devolves the money on to the working-class Mr and Mrs Boffin, who seem corrupted by their sudden affluence. John Mullan's 10 of the best: wills 2012-07-06T21:55:19Z I like a pair of yellow rubber gloves, and I love to throw things into the rubbish heap. The Show’s Delayed, but They’re Still Keeping ‘Company’ 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z I had seen discarded foetuses in China many times before: purple lumps of flesh lying on rubbish heaps or inside communal dustbins. China's barbaric one-child policy 2013-05-06T06:00:01Z Photographers come clean on how they created their favourite works 'I found these in a rubbish heap' ... Photographer John Stewart's best shot 2011-01-05T22:00:01Z Mistaken for a Turkish onion, they were tasted, found underwhelming and dumped as rubbish, then rescued by someone who spotted flowers emerging from the rubbish heap in spring. Chasing Rembrandt’s Tulips on Two Wheels 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z As dawn rises, marking the end of the first 24 hours of peace, Maciek’s body is sprawled on a rubbish heap. Andrzej Wajda, Towering Auteur of Polish Cinema, Dies at 90 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z I found these particular objects on a rubbish heap in the south of France, where I have a house. Photographer John Stewart's best shot 2011-01-05T22:00:01Z He takes up life on the street, doing pantomime for Parisian cafe-goers, until he's taken in by a pack of vagabonds who live in a secret lair hidden inside a rubbish heap. The relentless whimsy of "Micmacs" 2010-05-28T00:20:00Z Trash is the story of a young street child who lives and works on a rubbish heap, and who finds himself on the run from the police. Blue Peter awards drop 'unsuitable' finalist 2010-12-07T17:27:00Z I don’t mean the rubbish heap of history, which is how the poet Petrarch envisioned the city in the 14th century. Rome in Ruins 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z One observer in this unsettling, piercing film likens the company to a rubbish heap crawling with rats. ‘Bolshoi Babylon’: Ballet’s dark side meets Kremlin politics 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z "That means abiding by the laws of Azerbaijan, becoming normal, loyal citizens, tossing false state symbols onto the rubbish heap and dissolving the so-called parliament," Aliyev said in an address shown on Azeri state television. Armenia, Azerbaijan trade barbs ahead of new peace talks 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z The youngest, the one Noor was closest to, “was shot many times, his body was left by a rubbish heap.” The Children of the Iraq War Have Grown Up, but Some Wounds Don’t Heal 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z In Houston, some Afghans have been placed in crime-ridden neighborhoods and are living in apartments with dilapidated toilets or black mold in bathrooms, and are salvaging supplies from rubbish heaps or borrowing from neighbors. At Every Step, Afghans Coming to America Encounter Stumbling Blocks 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Itself aggressive and a symbol of urban resilience, “it grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps,” the author Betty Smith wrote. Die, Beautiful Spotted Lanternfly, Die 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Those and other artefacts were thrown in a Darwin rubbish heap. Rio played down Australian heritage damage at inquiry - Aboriginal group 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Tougher and noisier, it fits the lyric’s apocalyptic darkness: “Where’s the heart in the rubbish heap of man?” PJ Harvey's 50 greatest songs – ranked! 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z It then became ill and almost died after scavenging for food on a rubbish heap in Norilsk and urgently needed treatment, oil company Rosneft which works in the region said in a statement. Lost polar bear taken to Siberian zoo to be treated 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z It all took place in this one rubbish heap. ‘Cats’ choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler on Taylor Swift’s transformation and going big 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z They relied on the rubbish heap for plastics and recycling to sell, but the site has been closed down. The people left behind by Philippines' brutal war on drugs - photo essay 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z The more speech there is, the argument goes, the easier it will be for the best ideas to gain acceptance, and for the worst ideas to be consigned to the proverbial rubbish heap. How the resurgence of white supremacy in the US sparked a war over free speech 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Other kids use a makeshift basketball hoop, precariously fixed beneath a pylon, or clamber on the nearby rubbish heap. The haves and have-nots: four cities in crisis 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Until recently, the majority ended up in deep freeze — or on the rubbish heap. Compound screening: Fresh hunting ground : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z According to her findings, as many as 1,000 Jewish victims are buried there in mass graves, beneath farmland, woodland, rubbish heaps and a shooting range. Search for Family’s Lost History Leads to Mass Grave in Poland 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z But watching 20 tonnes of freshly dug parsnips consigned to the rubbish heap in a Norfolk farmyard - purely because they didn't look pretty enough - is still one of the most shocking things I've ever seen. Viewpoint: The rejected vegetables that aren’t even wonky - BBC News 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z "They killed and dumped a newborn baby on the rubbish heap," read the headline. The woman who adopts dead babies - BBC News 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Everest base camp is a vast rubbish heap. To Hades and Back: Exploring the Deepest Part of the Ocean 2014-04-17T18:38:06Z He found it on top of a rubbish heap, brought it back to our tent, and we tried again to warm and soothe it. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z The last time they excavated here at all systematically, they turned over some of the rubbish heaps of the camp. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z "I dragged it out and threw it on the rubbish heap, in an alley back of the palace," said Tiggle. Sky Island Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies 2012-03-17T02:01:04.773Z This gentleman contracts for the purchase of all the refuse, the waste paper, the gilt or tin foil and other unconsidered trifles included which accumulate in the rubbish heaps of other premises. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z At one camp, where a mass of huts nestled between an open rubbish heap and farmland, organizers said refugees were arriving at a rate of about 10 a day. Myanmar refugees tell of violence despite peace calls 2012-02-10T10:20:49Z On the E., upon the crown of the plateau, are the sites on which Smith and Porcher placed temples of Bacchus, Venus and Augustus, but they are marked only by rubbish heaps. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Some twenty rounds reduced this, the first line of defence, to a mere rubbish heap. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z Instead of throwing your tree on the rubbish heap why not use it to help the environment? Stopping erosion with Xmas trees 2012-01-17T08:07:02Z Now it’s up to you whether we make the most of our luck, or throw it in the rubbish heap.” The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass The Midnight Call for Assistance 2012-01-02T03:00:17.697Z He stumbled over rubbish heaps and stones and brickbats, varied now and then with nettles and twitch grass. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z You have filled my mind with a lot of new ideas that make it feel like a rubbish heap. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z And in front of the door lay a rubbish heap of old shoes, dirty rags and other ugly stuff. The Norwegian Fairy Book 2011-11-22T03:00:08.940Z Distant shouts arose, the Sheep Gate choked suddenly with a mass, Kedron's banks, the tombs of Tophet and the rubbish heaps there yielded up clambering, running people. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z The old eyesore of dilapidated huts and rubbish heaps along the river and lake shore was soon swept away after the railroads came, and a fine park substituted. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z The damp soil was merged very soon in substances less gentle to the feet; old crocks and scraps of metal and other debris, the prelude to a rubbish heap. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z It is the first day again, and no need yet for a rubbish heap. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The rubbish heaps and the tumbledown houses are hidden in the "poetical and silent lap of darkness." Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z Ghosts of the unpleasant-looking Lipari islands standing a little way out to sea, heaps of shadow deposited like rubbish heaps in the universal greyness. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Alan had played about that rubbish heap, and he knew that there were lumps of lead among the wood-ashes and crumbled stones. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Now it was a stretch of gravel, now a rubbish heap, now moist earth, now roots and bushes, and then finally, after the lapse of hours as it seemed, he came up against a wall. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z We would start a rubbish heap for a pristine world with a decayed tooth. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z "And the moral," interposes the Maskil, "is that one shouldn't keep rubbish heaps under the window, that you can do nothing without money, and, above all, that one shouldn't be frightened of any Rebbe!" Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z It was all very well for them to swank round about being masters of their own mines; any fool could be master of a rubbish heap if he was keen enough on the rubbish heap. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z The rubbish heaps of the monasteries, the concealed libraries, the graves, have yielded up some of their treasures, but all has not yet been brought to light. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z Now, if tortoises do not end up in the rubbish heaps of restaurants, they end up in the suitcases of tortoise smugglers. 'Tortoise mafia' 2011-06-28T02:34:26Z Such is an old tramp wandering in the mire, Dreaming the paradise of his own desire, Discovering cities of enchanted sleep Where'er the light shines on a rubbish heap. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z The village was now only a rubbish heap; the church was a broken shell, and the very graves in the churchyard had been torn open by our shells. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z At one window a bright red and yellow tulip grew in an old black teapot, whose nose and handle evidently helped to form the rubbish heap down one of the gratings. Friends I Have Made 2011-02-25T03:01:14.587Z In the rubbish heap, or reindeer station, at the source of the Schusse, there were discovered more than six hundred split flints, with a quantity of partly worked antlers and bones of the reindeer. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z Many of the rubbish heaps have been planted with little forests of dwarf firs, and look like ranges of low wooded hills. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z These acts of destruction, transforming into a rubbish heap that tranquil country of Belgium, which was above everything an incomparable museum, all are agreed to stigmatise as a base, ignoble crime. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z By 5.15 that evening all the forts at the entrance to the Dardanelles were rubbish heaps. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z An ancient regime has been swept from our hemisphere and relegated to the rubbish heap of nations. The Outlook: Uncle Sam's Place and Prospects in International Politics 2010-12-30T03:00:21Z When multinationals bow to pressure from campaigners against “sweatshops” and sever links with suppliers in poor countries, the workers who previously stitched shoes for export may end up scavenging from rubbish heaps. Schumpeter: Companies aren?t charities 2010-10-21T11:18:00Z Joseph dreams of saving enough money to pay for his children's education, but for now they all work - by digging bones from a rubbish heap and selling them. Forgotten children 2010-03-02T09:40:00Z Look at those children playing on the rubbish heap - they should be in school at this time. 2010-01-16T01:11:00Z It resembled a city destroyed by an earthquake—a rubbish heap, with here and there a few gaping walls and shot-rent towers brooding over the desolation like gaunt skeletons. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z On the other hand, Adolphine's house, in spite of all her wishes and endeavours, had never been anything more than an omnium-gatherum, a rubbish heap. Small Souls And she had hung her head humbly, and vanished behind the rubbish heap, and there she cowered now, in terror of being discovered. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers He would create his own rubbish heap and invite the Upper Fifth to scratch in it for pearls. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Is it possible that after manufacturing the rubbish heaps of law with which our libraries are lumbered up, they precisely omitted to regulate the only matter considered worthy to-day of regulation? Underground Man That spring suit," he said laughing, "I'll just throw down on the rubbish heap. Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School Even now he would listen to no offers of compromise, and after defending Stralsund with desperate courage till it was a mere rubbish heap, returned to Sweden after an absence of 14 years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" All the time a pair of shining eyes watched him from the other side of a rubbish heap, and a woman's figure that sat cowering there trembled like an aspen. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers Scarlet runner beans, being ornamental as well as useful, are some of the best vegetables to grow, as they can be made to form a convenient screen for a rubbish heap. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them The composition introduced Carlyle to the “Dryasdust” rubbish heaps of which he here and ever afterwards bitterly complained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" It is more than Francis—it is all the things that he stands for, all the things that will soon make England a rubbish heap for every dirty foreigner to dump his filth on to. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary They are just bits of printed paper, but I don't want them to be burned or thrown into the rubbish heap, that's all. Windyridge Plant cabbages and other things, let them stand till they be good for nothing, and then wheel them to the rubbish heap. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend On the rubbish heap, marrows can be grown with the greatest facility, as they revel in the rich warmth there found. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them His marble halls were reduced to rubbish heaps, his kiosks were smoking ruins, and his splendid gardens lay buried, obliterated. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries According to the philosophers, the bourgeois world as it exists is unreasonable and unjust and is destined for the rubbish heap, just as feudalism and all other earlier forms of society. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" Why all this expense in ransacking to their utmost depths the rubbish heaps of forgotten centuries, where we know neither treasures of gold nor of silver exist? The Christian View of the Old Testament The rubbish heap always receives four-fifths even of the eatable part of the produce. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend I supposed we were only in for the last piteous turning out of the dead man's drawers, the sorting and sifting of the rubbish heap. The Return of the Prodigal With a little clemency, look quickly in the rubbish heap for the pepper pot. Banked Fires No, I don’t care to add anything to that particular rubbish heap. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 A rusty knife found in a rubbish heap by the river had been polished by thrusting it repeatedly into the dirt. The Plow-Woman Their rubbish heap consists of little besides mere cabbage stumps. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend That definition has gone to the rubbish heap, for the atom can now be torn to pieces. Carmen Ariza When tired of their work at the rubbish heaps they stretch out their round, sausage-like bodies, panting in the sun, if there is any, and if it is too warm they get into the shade. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I And all she saw was that there was much carrion of ravens on Qasiagssaq’s rubbish heap. Eskimo Folk-Tales They begged empty cocoa tins from the cook, and even climbed over the wall on to the rubbish heap to rescue specimens, rusty or otherwise, that lay there unnoticed and unappropriated. The Madcap of the School After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after. Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases The enchantment of distance had blotted out the rubbish heaps. The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man But, doubtless, the rubbish heap is, or some day will be, too valuable as building land. Highways and Byways in Surrey But Navssârssuaq hauled him out through the passage way, cast him on the rubbish heap and went his way, saying nothing. Eskimo Folk-Tales The race would have been a short one, indeed, had she not found it impossible to ignore the puddles, rubbish heaps, and other obstacles which half-filled the streets and obstructed her path at every turn. The Panchronicon The early pottery near the temple was then turned over; it appeared to be a mere rubbish heap, with no sign of tomb or of brick building. El Kab Though this little sheep, in particular, may have a little of its wool shorn off, I trust that it may eventually avoid the rubbish heap. 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany To arrive at Guildford by train is like walking into a garden over a rubbish heap. Highways and Byways in Surrey I know we had some at La Chance, but we probably left them there, nosing round the bunk-house rubbish heap. The La Chance Mine Mystery In Grundtvig he is merely a contemptible braggart, ‘with his nose high in air,’ who will not allow himself to be ‘thrown to the rubbish heap.’ The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Why, my dear girl, Pervyse is nothing but a rubbish heap. Young Hilda at the Wars The men landed on a soft rubbish heap below, and one was unhurt; the other, though much injured, survived. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 He was an English City clerk, 'flourishing' towards the end of the nineteenth century, and the rubbish heap that had been accumulating for some centuries could not be cleared away in an instant. The House of Souls Now the rose garden was used as a rubbish heap for tins; and by the over-grown sundial, chipped and scarred by a stray shell, two wooden crosses stuck out of the long rank grass. Mufti This grass grows in shady places in very rich soils generally and is abundant in shady nooks and corners where there are rubbish heaps. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Otherwise the rubbish heap was lifeless—save for a sepulchral voice—"Got him." No Man's Land So saying, he heads his horse in among the rubbish heaps, each with its hole yawning adjacent: the others, as admonished, close following, and keeping in his tracks. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco I remember the case of a very old Boer, who was practically a pauper, finding a 90-carat stone when scratching on the side of a rubbish heap. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer In fact, it sweeps a whole lot of fine and legitimate ambitions straight into the rubbish heap of the Not-worth-while. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women At last a step was heard on the rubbish heap above them; then a blow resounded on their covering, as if with the butt-end of a musket. The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar Suddenly and with incredible swiftness a portion of the rubbish heap, with dock leaves, nettles, old cans, and bricks adhering to it, detached itself from the main pile and hurled itself into the trench. No Man's Land I clambered my horse over the shell-holes and rubbish heaps of Guillemont, a preliminary to a short reconnaissance of the roads and tracks in the neighbourhood. Pushed and the Return Push All else, cast in the rubbish heap with past delusions. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time The rubbish heap soon slanted down again, and they continued their way, as before. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem It looked more like a rubbish heap than a garden, and the close neighbourhood of the well did not improve it. The Hawthorns A Story about Children The other was from the rubbish heap ten yards away, and the blast made a piece of hemlock rock violently. No Man's Land I succeeded by means of the rubbish heap in scaling the wall. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 The yard was only big enough for the perennial rubbish heap. The Promised Land Owen Frazer went over to the sink and looked out of the window at the bed-tick smoldering on the rubbish heap. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Of Nineveh and Babylon only rubbish heaps are left, but China still shows no sign of decay. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People His heavy breath and bloodshot eyes testified what he had found under the rubbish heaps of Fort Gibraltar's cellar. Lords of the North Trench mortars and rifle grenades were continuously employed to make life as unpleasant as possible for the enemy, whose trenches soon became, to all appearances, a rubbish heap. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry For two days Henry lived in the rubbish heap of the attic in the house of Langlade, a pioneer of Wisconsin. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom It had been taken gently down, laid out on a desk in state for a day or two, and finally was in funeral procession to the rubbish heap when Eph Todd appeared. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know A bed in the corner did not look inviting, and through the broken windows innumerable swarms of blue-bottle flies came from the rubbish heaps in the yard. The Great War As I Saw It We hallooed for servants and by lantern light examined every square inch of the smoked snow and rubbish heaps. Lords of the North Little remains of the house, and in the rubbish heap of fallen walls and beams and plaster, narrow iron bedsteads, where nuns slept or young girls dreamed, perch timidly among stones and blackened bricks. Everyman's Land Pull it up like a weed; drop it on the rubbish heap as if it were a stinging nettle; and let some harmonious thought grow in its place. The Joyful Heart A big lump came in his throat and tears blurred his sight, so that he could scarcely see the ugly rubbish heap and the cinders that lay around. Dick Lionheart The concrete roofs of the ammunition rooms and barracks were shot to pieces and the traverses were reduced to rubbish heaps by the bursting of the numerous shells of the enemy. Banzai! by Parabellum However, it won't be long now before you can cast your crutches into the rubbish heap. The Story of Porcelain Three years before this "garden to look out from" won its Carnegie prize it was for the most part a rubbish heap. The Amateur Garden Like the sun, let them cast their rays upon garden and rubbish heap alike, and even as clouds in spring, let them shed down their rain upon flower and thorn. Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá With his heart on fire, his eyes raining tears, he struggled weakly to move about; so his days went by, and always, he longed to make his exit from this rubbish heap, the world. Memorials of the Faithful I ask you what a traveler would make of the "1½ fr. pour diner," when he came on that rubbish heap which is the Hotel of Hope—"Hotel de l'Espérance." Golden Lads A few worthless generals had been swept into the rubbish heap where they belonged, and this was the chief item on the credit side of the ledger. The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 She wandered into her past as a child might wander among the rubbish heaps of its old home in ruins. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron Not a pole or plank of scaffolding was left standing, no litter or rubbish heaps were to be seen; every approach, every yard of the enclosure was beautifully swept. The Mark of the Beast But they are not to be found in the world's rubbish heap. The Swindler and Other Stories He examined the premises over and over again, never suspecting the rubbish heap, and was about giving up the search when, unfortunately, Kamalo’s pig sent forth a squeal which revealed the poor fellow’s hiding-place. Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends Again an old rubbish heap, replete with tin cans and other discards that will hold water, offers more encouragement to mosquitoes than is generally realized. If You're Going to Live in the Country In Italy there was no literary renaissance; there was just a stirring of the rubbish heap. Art If he does not know and follow truly the properties of mortar, burnt clay, and what else he works in, it is no house that he makes, but a rubbish heap. The Art of Public Speaking For a moment he thought of creeping back to the rubbish heap in the corner and trying to find, amongst the odds and ends lying there, some sort of weapon of defense. The Wharf by the Docks A Novel He looked down and he saw an empty tomato-can on a rubbish heap. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Her dressing table, her bed and the chairs look like rubbish heaps. The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware In the rubbish heap we found an old chair. The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island A drunken idea—a pearl in the midst of a rubbish heap. The Ragged Edge We're rubbish—rubbish on the world's rubbish heap—flung there by you. The Spinners It now goes under the name Masr-el-Atika, and is noted at the present day for its immense rubbish heaps. The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela He was sprawling angularly on a cane lounge, surrounded by whole rubbish heaps of manuscript, a grey scrawl in a foam of soiled paper. The Inheritors A few half-finished houses stood among blackened stumps in a cleared belt, where there were rubbish heaps and willows were springing up, but a little farther on the forest rose in a shadowy wall. Carmen's Messenger A few rubbish heaps beside the road tell of former farms and factories. Fields of Victory These eggs are laid in the ground and in rubbish heaps. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Everything eatable—I had almost said and drinkable—we had in cans; and these cans when emptied were cast into the rubbish heap and finally consigned to the dump-cart. In the Footprints of the Padres To his excited gaze the rubbish heaps centring about the curb seemed already in movement. The Collectors Today they surround the few miserable huts and rubbish heaps which centuries ago were Nicea. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle The result of this novel analysis was startling: old powers and checks went to the rubbish heap, and a wholly new set of machinery and even new springs of force and life were substituted. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 They lay lots of eggs in old rubbish heaps. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. The author of Philosophumena, whoever he was, evidently had access to some of the writings of the Simonians, and here at last we have arrived at any thing of real value in our rubbish heap. Simon Magus They are so famished that they creep at night to steal the potato parings which their German guards throw on to—the rubbish heap. Through the Iron Bars Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium “Put the knave on the rubbish heap,” she muttered without looking up. The Moon Rock Wandering through the grass, scurrying over the rubbish heaps, running in and out of the crumbling thresholds were thousands and thousands of rats. A Volunteer Poilu The club women's fifteen hundred dollars was doubled by popular subscription, and the work of turning a town rubbish heap into a cool and shady garden spot was brief but durable. What eight million women want It certainly looked unpromising enough, being just such a rubbish heap as may be swept up in any untidy room during a move. The Mystery of 31 New Inn My feet were upon a rubbish heap of plaster, where a shell had shaken the ceiling to the floor. Love under Fire If anybody likes to fling it on the rubbish heap they may. The Three Brontës Unexploded bombs were found in gardens and rubbish heaps. The Soul of the War During the Middle Ages there must have been, however, more than mere rubbish heaps, and the many walls then standing were probably destroyed by monks in order to furnish cheap material for ecclesiastical buildings. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association The wind took up the dust from the rubbish heaps which had been houses and wreathed it against what bits of walls still maintained the perpendicular. Over There War Scenes on the Western Front The house must, also, in my opinion, have been torn down, for of traces of fire, as, for example, charred beams, damaged stoves, and rubbish heaps, there was no sign. Armenian Literature The interior, while excavations are in progress, is too much a chaotic rubbish heap to be very inviting. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter And it was smoke that you saw coming from Stride's cottage, or from the rubbish heaps he's been burning in the kitchen garden. The Man Whom the Trees Loved The German guns had beaten upon it until it was like a rubbish heap in the backyard of hell. A Minstrel in France Eager as I was to shoot the entire business into the rubbish heap where ignorance and superstition discharge their poisonous weeds, I could not honestly accomplish this. The Damned It was he who had left the door in the wall open, that he might throw the weeds and tares on the rubbish heap outside. Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls As his feet struck the top of the rubbish heap in the hold of the vessel, Cleggett stumbled and staggered forward. The Cruise of the Jasper B. All about the vault and up the slope of the rubbish heap lay and stood and squatted the forty-nine whose friendship Lina had conquered in the wood. The Princess and Curdie In this general social and intellectual house-cleaning have we consigned virtue to the rubbish heap—or at best relegated it to the garret with the spinning-wheel, hand-loom and other out-of-date trumpery? Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 He scrambled up among the hazelled rubbish heaps that surround the caldron of the quarry, and lay flat upon the stones. Tales and Fantasies Yet she looked on helplessly enough last night, when her royal pyramid was trundled into a rubbish heap. The Lost Continent Below deck, except for the rubbish heap and the steps for the masts, she was empty as a soup tureen. The Cruise of the Jasper B. My husband lies on the rubbish heap this morning, but before night the boy in the house will lie very still. The Jungle Book There was an enchanted rubbish heap, I remember, where all kinds of queer things happened. The Voyage Out "I have never had the curiosity to penetrate into this rubbish heap before, and behold I am rewarded by finding a jewel." The Brown Mask In silence we swept round that great bulk of rubbish heap, Roman and early Christian, under which lies An, the town of the Column. It Happened in Egypt It was not impossible that the other intruder might be lying, wounded, but revived enough by now to work a pistol, behind one of the rubbish heaps. The Cruise of the Jasper B. For you will go to the rubbish heap with Nag. The Jungle Book On a rubbish heap outside the temple they had found a little marble head. Buried Cities, Volume 2 Olympia Preferred Habitat—Light soil, fields, waste land near dwellings, rubbish heaps. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing I yield up all! my picture rare Found beneath antique rubbish heap, My great and tapestried oak chair I will from you no longer keep. Poems There was a final survey of the boys' room, which resembled a rubbish heap, owing to vigorous packing. A Little Bush Maid On the rubbish heap by the stables, mourning for Nag. The Jungle Book He viewed life microscopically and spent his portion of emotion in an aggressive hatred of all those things which he consigned to the rubbish heap labeled non-scientific. The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love She went forth and fared on among the rubbish heaps, I still following her without her knowledge, till she came to a reed fence, within which was a hut of brick. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I He would sleep on a rubbish heap, or on a seat, or in a piece of waste land, or across a gutter. L'Assommoir Torn up, cast out, on rubbish heaps where red flames work their will Each atom of the Aloe keeps the flower-time fragrance still. India's Love Lyrics He discovered, on a rubbish heap, outside the gates of Stockholm, a new kind of goose-foot with curved hairs on the usually straight-haired calyx. Married It then began to rummage in the rubbish heap. Historical Miniatures And if I'm not mistaken, the bottles must be lying somewhere in that rubbish heap over by the window.” Darkness and Dawn Many years ago the English psychologist, F. W. H. Myers, suggested that 'hidden in the deep of our being is a rubbish heap as well as a treasure house.' Autobiography of a Yogi Thus had another ideal tumbled to the rubbish heap! Lifted Masks; stories But should this be done would it rear up the buildings That now form a rubbish heap blackened and hot? The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects He slept on the ground, and ate from the rubbish heaps; he was jeered at by the children, beaten by the adults, and took everything quietly, convinced that some day his dream would be fulfilled. Historical Miniatures In outbursts of despair my critical discrimination consigned my own work to the rubbish heap. Over the Pass He sipped the wine in silence, while I thought of the bundle of foul rags upon our rubbish heap. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch Rose, my sister, picked up out of a rubbish heap a little bronze statuette, hardly three inches high, but, as experts said, of the best artistic period. Hawthorne and His Circle I heard their outcries about the house behind us, as we stumbled over the frozen rubbish heaps with which the lane was bestrewn. The Splendid Spur Weary, but not depressed, he sat down on a rubbish heap which seemed quite fresh. Historical Miniatures It was the same rubbish heap where his step-sister had been thrown, and in his fall he broke his own and his step-sister's last bones. Cornelli In a rubbish heap I kicked against something more solid and picked it up. The Making of an American Such banks! sheets, and walls, and rubbish heaps of rock, mixed up with trees fallen and standing. Travels in West Africa "She may have fallen on the rubbish heap," suggested one of the older girls. Dorothy Dale : a girl of today After such a find I naturally went back many times to burrow in that delightful rubbish heap, and was at length rewarded by the discovery of yet another poem of rural England—the Farmer's Boy. Afoot in England A pariah tore along beside the vehicle barking; crows flew up from the rubbish heaps in the road by half-dozens, protesting shrilly; a pedlar of blue bead necklaces just escaped being knocked down. The Path of a Star At last under a rubbish heap he found a revolver wrapped up loosely in an old sweater. The Dream Doctor "I dragged it out and threw it on the rubbish heap in an alley back of the palace," said Tiggle. Sky Island: being the further exciting adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after their visit to the sea fairies And now, we can only fish among the rubbish heaps for the remnants of their old expression. Women in Love Texas is just the rubbish heap o' this whole country. Happy Hawkins A big grey rat stole from a rubbish heap close by her, flitted across the sunlit space, and disappeared into a cranny. The Garden of Allah As for that, I found thee lying on the rubbish heap by the door of the fire house, as I went to my work near the morning, and knew not who had thrown thee there. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 Diamonds, gold dust, petrified ram's horn, heavenly beetle are all flung on a rubbish heap outside the door. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography "The King will never come to this rubbish heap," she told herself despairingly. The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest To one rubbish heap which had been a corner house two girls came back. Now It Can Be Told Not until our own day did these rubbish heaps attract attention, and it was reserved to our own generation, so interested in all that relates to the past, to recognize their true significance. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples And then a very low contralto voice, indescribably sweet, and with an audacious ripple of laughter running through it, swept all her scruples into the rubbish heap. The Hermit of Far End Preferred Habitat - Light soil, fields, waste land near dwellings, rubbish heaps. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Thus concealed, the egg escapes the eagle eye of the Bee, whereas, if left uncovered, it would inevitably perish, would be flung on the rubbish heap at once by the owner of the nest. The Mason-Bees Generally they killed a few women and children and knocked a few poor houses and a shop or two into a wild rubbish heap of bricks and timber. Now It Can Be Told How her spent carcass was flung out on the rubbish heap, and how a multitude of laying sisters went about dropping drone-eggs where they listed, and said there was no more need of Queens. Actions and Reactions She moved the rose-bushes and carried them to the other end of the garden, where the rubbish heap was that they meant to make a bonfire of when Guy Fawkes' Day came. The Railway Children Its sole use yet discovered is to screen ugly fences and rubbish heaps by climbing and trailing luxuriantly over everything within reach. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors The colours of the smoke were various; for some chimneys were from firesides and some from factories, and some again from mere rubbish heaps. Manalive It covered, with its purity, the rubbish heaps in Flemish farmyards and the old oak beams of barns and sheds where British soldiers made their beds of straw. Now It Can Be Told On the contrary, they have been piled up like rubbish heaps, resembling the small mountains of coal dust near the mouths of anthracite mines. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire There always have been such people, I suppose, because the world must always have a rubbish heap. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains There was no movement among all those rubbish heaps of fallen masonry and twisted iron. Now It Can Be Told It was only at seven-thirty in the morning of Tuesday, after thirty hours under shell-fire, that the survivors came away from their rubbish heap in the lines of death. Now It Can Be Told It was almost dark now as we made our way through other streets of rubbish heaps. Now It Can Be Told |
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