Word: pile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Huss (he spelled it Hus) of Bohemia was tied to a stake in 1415. Hysterical peasants and zealous priests pointed to a pile of fagots at his feet, again asked him to recant his life's teachings. He replied with his eyes on the clouds: "God is my witness that I have never taught or preached that which false witnesses have testified against me. He knows that the great object of all my preaching and writing was to convert men from sin. In the truth of that gospel. . . I now joyfully die." The flames licked out his life...
...massive moulder of mortar and manipulator of men reclined uncomfortably upon a pile of boards and twitched slightly from unavoidable rheumatism. "Besides, it's too damp in here: I'm gettin" so I can't walk I'm so tied...
Once in a little southern town she made rough workmen passing by the railroad yard hold their breath while she spoke to them from atop a pile of tar-smeared ties. An enraptured foreman forgot to blow his whistle...
...from Palestine. Both San Francisco and Manhattan have cheered his playing. After hearing him do the solo parts in Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole" under Conductor Paul Paray of the famed Lamoureux orchestra in his first Paris concert, Paris critics said: "Not since the- child Mozart, seated on a pile of music on a piano stool...
...shown a picture of your brother's nose, and we were instructed to smash that nose every time we got near it." "But there were bits of flesh torn from the other parts of his body," I said. "That was--(naming the Princeton player) he always bites under the pile." My brother had to have a part of a rib transplanted before he was able to breathe through his nose again. When these Princeton football players told me this, I telegraphed Jim to ask him what I should do. He never answered, but I went back to prep school...