1 The performance was that of bringing together and building into a stack the furze faggots which Humphrey had been cutting for the captain's use during the foregoing fine days.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer 2 The stack was at the end of the dwelling, and the men engaged in building it were Humphrey and Sam, the old man looking on.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer 3 The engines were soon upon the spot, but the dry wood burned with great fury, and it was impossible to arrest the conflagration until the stack had been entirely consumed.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER 4 "Blest if the old Nonesuch ain't a heppin us out agin," and he begun to haul out yaller-jackets and stack them up.
5 The shoes carried her over stack and stone; she was torn till she bled; she danced over the heath till she came to a little house.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE RED SHOES 6 I came upon more pieces of decaying machinery, a stack of rusty rails.
7 We came to the bank, and on the stack of firewood found a flat piece of board with some faded pencil-writing on it.
8 There turned out to be only thirty-two loads in the stack.
9 I like to be where I know every stack and tree, and where all the ground is friendly.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContext Highlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: IV 10 Recovering himself in a minute he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.
11 He went to the hay fields and examined the stacks.
12 After a prolonged dispute the matter was decided by the peasants taking these eleven stacks, reckoning them as fifty loads each.
13 She had privately gone through Gerald's pockets and his cash box and all she could find was stacks of Confederate bonds and three thousand dollars in Confederate bills.
14 Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place; where his bayonet rays moved on in stacks.
15 I lay awake and watched the moonlight shining over the barn and the stacks and the pond, and the windmill making its old dark shadow against the blue sky.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContext Highlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III