antheap

It was a regular antheap all the way in, with the miners crawling over the tree-clad slopes, and the ceaseless thump of picks and scrape of shovels and ring of axes, and ramshackle huts and shanties and sluice-boxes everywhere, with dirty bearded fellows in slouch hats and galluses cussing and burrowing, and claim signs all along Sweetheart Mine, Crossbone Diggings, Damyereyes Gulch, and the like.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Even in the antheap of NYC environs, penetration of fast broadband is mediocre to poor.

HD DVDs Fall Like Dominoes - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Strategically is does not matter who sits in the DC antheap of Power but tactically we are facing the desperate fools who want to unleash the WWIII.

Waking the Dead 2006

Our antheap we sensed as a Hill of Allen, the Barrow for an People, one Jotnursfjaell: and it was a grummelung amung the porktroop that wonderstruck us as a thunder, yunder.

Finnegans Wake 2006

Peculiar that the country was not milling like a kicked antheap over those Aiel.

Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

As for the younger son, Tamas, just past his seventeenth winter'shy, too-gentle Tamas, prettier than any girl in the keep'the boy was a fine hunter, if he could hit anything he'd tracked; a fine bowman, against straw targets; a serious, silent lad who would sit for an hour contemplating an antheap or picking a flower apart to find out what was inside.

The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

As for the younger son, Tamas, just past his seventeenth winter'shy, too-gentle Tamas, prettier than any girl in the keep'the boy was a fine hunter, if he could hit anything he'd tracked; a fine bowman, against straw targets; a serious, silent lad who would sit for an hour contemplating an antheap or picking a flower apart to find out what was inside.

The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

The back halls, where the servants lived in small apartments; were stirring like a kicked antheap as men and women scurried to don their best livery.

The Great Hunt Jordan, Robert 1990

It was a regular antheap all the way in, with the miners crawling over the tree-clad slopes, and the ceaseless thump of picks and scrape of shovels and ring of axes, and ramshackle huts and shanties and sluice-boxes everywhere, with dirty bearded fellows in slouch hats and galluses cussing and burrowing, and claim signs all along Sweetheart Mine, Crossbone Diggings, Damyereyes Gulch, and the like.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

It was a regular antheap all the way in, with the miners crawling over the tree-clad slopes, and the ceaseless thump of picks and scrape of shovels and ring of axes, and ramshackle huts and shanties and sluice-boxes everywhere, with dirty bearded fellows in slouch hats and galluses cussing and burrowing, and claim signs all along Sweetheart Mine, Crossbone Diggings, Damyereyes Gulch, and the like.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982