Word: piles
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sitting on the pile...
...pecuniary transaction took place on Pooter's departure from home, between himself and his revered grandparents. Ever since then the money has burnt in his pocket, and has nearly eaten its way through two pairs of Poole's best trousers. The ingenious youth's intention is to increase his pile, if possible, at the expense of the hereditary Prince of Monaco. Is the dear boy inclined to be extravagant? Oh, dear, no! it is merely that he may select appropriate trifles for his maiden aunts and his five younger sisters...
...fall into the clutches of the professors and are taken from us for an indefinite time, would have a greater chance of seeing them; and we should be somewhat better protected against those few students who reach the Library early in the afternoon, select all the most desirable periodicals, pile them upon the table and proceed to read them at their leisure. Evening access to the reading-room of the Library would be a benefit to the whole University, and we hope that Mr. Winsor's proposal will be speedily carried...
...where they belong, but they were nowhere to be seen. Having requested at the desk that they should be hunted up, I resigned myself to the inevitable, and sat down to read another book. Presently I saw a resident graduate who attends the course, enter the Library with a pile of books under his arm, and calmly put the two in question on the shelves. Since this happens once, it probably happens often, and I think it perfectly fair to extend to all your readers the benefit of my accidental discovery; or, rather, I should think it unfair...
...faintest intentions of writing a Bowdoin dissertation; but they always inquire eagerly, "Are many going to write this year, and who do you think the examiners will be?" In midsummer they disappear, bury themselves in some hole for the rest of the vacation, and bring back in September a pile of drearily learned manuscript, the result of the summer's grind...