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    1. Here and there a mound of garbage rots in the bright sunshine, while feral cats paw through the refuse


    2. The pitcher stepped off the mound, mopped the sweat from his forehead with his hat and climbed back up onto the mound to get the sign from the catcher


    3. " They were airborne a second off the top of a particularly large mound of water


    4. Mostly it was a looming leafy mound behind them as they made their way out across the harbor to KangDarceen


    5. Images spring up in my memory: the face of the woman at the wayhouse mourning her grandchild … that sad mound beside the wasteg … too many have died already … the sigh that accompanies those thoughts is so heavy that Sefir turns her head to peer at me


    6. his cards and scooping up the little mound of straw


    7. It was the circular faery mound,


    8. the gate mound and found the correct path back


    9. mound of Bolg corpses


    10. The sheet-covered mound which had been Sheila lay on the path waiting to be interred

    11. He pushed his finger into the small mound of melted wax


    12. home runs, but of a warrior on the mound ready to strike me out


    13. pitches off the mound


    14. mound where Johnny was still standing


    15. At that moment in the field house, despite the wooden mound and the


    16. Grouse argued about whether Johnny the Killer was going to take the mound after


    17. Johnny took the mound again in the fifth


    18. Unfortunately the ball rolled past the pitcher’s mound and slowed so much


    19. remember the exact conversation on the mound between the three of us, but it had


    20. Johnny walked reluctantly off the mound, grabbed his first baseman’s mitt

    21. Roman sprinted from the bullpen out to the mound, his skinny frame unable


    22. mound with the ball in his mitt pointed toward home


    23. only concentrated on the dirt he was raking on the mound


    24. Cutting her wheel sharply to the right, she plowed into a mound of snow and came to rest against a misplaced bolder, from the steep overhang of the cliff above her


    25. He took the mound every fourth day and annihilated


    26. more relaxed and didn’t erupt one time on the mound


    27. yard in front of a house with a girl, and finally Roman standing on the mound in


    28. local community college to see the second time Roman took the mound


    29. They had a lefty on the mound who threw in the mid-


    30. guns pointed toward the mound, a wall of people from the top of the bleachers that

    31. I called time and ran out to the mound


    32. to the ground on a straight line, passing over second and then the mound


    33. Chiggeed was asleep at the other end of the table, lying crossways on that end, flat on his back with his furs on, snoring loudly, his generous belly making a mound


    34. Coach never told Roman to take the mound in the sixth, he just did it


    35. infield to the mound


    36. He beat her mercilessly until she felt like nothing more than a mound of pain


    37. He stuck out his tongue and let it hunt through the expanse of hair for the exciting hole he knew was concealed somewhere beneath her furry mound


    38. Now she was headed straight for an enormous mound of rubble and broken bricks


    39. Reaching the apex of the mound it shot out into thin air


    40. He walked off the trail, up the mound and kneeled down between the trunks of the large oaks

    41. It was cozy in the mound and he could feel the tiredness leave his legs as he leaned against the wall


    42. Only weakly could he maintain his grip upon his sword, and yet he came, determined not lie underneath a mound of bodies


    43. The group moved quickly along the side of the mid-section, around the twisted remains of the landing feet, and began to ascend the mound of rock that had been pushed up before it


    44. As we looked landward we could see the large yellow jagged steep pitted mound that was called the ‘Sphinx’


    45. than a dirt mound, on the edge of the clearing, overlooking a spectacular vista of the river and the


    46. How else describe the arrogance, hubris, and downright lust for power a la the second Messiah that infests the Obamas and their senior minions in the ant hill (or is it termite mound) that has remade our nation"s capital? Recall that in the mid 1960"s J


    47. I stood up and walked down the mound from where the Oak tree stood I had reached the gates nearly and something I don’t know what made me turn to look at the grave again


    48. On arriving at the mound, Halon looked over at the town, it was grey and lifeless


    49. On the way to join the crowd, Amaranthe and Maldynado skirted a second pit, a recent excavation with a mound of dirt piled next to it


    50. "Stupid badger! Stupid, stupid, badger!" he ranted, cocking his head to one side as he studied the fresh mound













































    1. The water mounded up, its forward progress stymied, before falling in a rush, away and down both sides of the first level, creating raging whirlpools as eddy currents spun away against the brick facings


    2. It mounded up high over the deck and cargo until it ran over the sides in continuous rivulets


    3. Gray boulders were mounded to form a wall, topped with a fence of logs


    4. walking through the yellow dirt that was mounded up all around


    5. At the base of the slope of the mounded hill that the temple was built on, the road stopped being straight and curved around the slope


    6. All that was left of them was mounded piles of rubble covered in snow


    7. Sometimes, words meant in the utmost respect were misconstrued by overstrung relatives of the dead and scarcely were the last shovels of earth mounded above the coffin before trouble began


    8. And then I was in Louisiana, with Lake Charles away to the side in the dark, but my lights glittered on ice and glinted on diamond frost, and those people who forever trudge the roads at night were mounded over with cloth against the cold


    1. The area closer to the house was densely planted with growing beings rescued from destruction in the previous garden: lithe birch trees graceful as dancers, clumps of fairy-like nandina, stately arum lilies, agapanthus mounding greenly, fine-leafed groundcovers spilling over every surface


    1. Mining Bees in the lawn: Their mounds can be removed with a rake


    2. The three of them sat around it on some gravel mounds they'd scooped up


    3. His eyes found the culprit and she was every bit as unpleasant as he had feared; cavernous dripping allergy prone nose, mounds of shapeless, colorless, big New England hair, and a body so laden with fat that only the bare outline of a human form could be seen beneath


    4. buried by mounds of mole plumed and sieved earth


    5. common-folk look upon the mounds with fear


    6. darkness around the mounds will grow in size


    7. stood looking out at the falling rain and the mounds


    8. Alistair said, “It’s little more than a few stone walls and mounds of


    9. mounds almost busting out of the top of her dress, but I remembered that girls had


    10. Jorma entered to find a man buried in such curly red mounds of hair and beard that little more than his eyes and nose poked thru

    11. Johnny the Killer was on one of wooden mounds, and I was a little excited,


    12. And so, the first snow sweep into the valley, laying all that sat still in mounds of white powder, and with it came the holiday's


    13. "What happens to it all then?" Flitter gazed at the mounds of tempting food


    14. Crouched in little huddled clumps of threes and fours, the tattered forms of 'conscripts' scraped, cracked, chewed and sifted out even the smallest bits of ore from the mounds of rock and debris surrounding them


    15. ” A short time later the flares whooshed up into the sky again and the Turks charged forward again in line abreast our machine guns caught them again and cut them to ribbons and now in the light of the flares we could see mounds of Turkish dead


    16. The rest of the campsite was either mounds of sleeping soldiers on blankets, or Guardians, Ael Tarael and Alit’aren patrolling the campfires in small groups


    17. I’d read piles of studies, checked out mounds of medical books from the university library, even found Dr


    18. A distant light cast a crosshatch of shadows over cobblestones and mounds of discarded vegetable cuttings


    19. Another chore that Michael had to contend with was the mounds of medical bills that arrived each day


    20. Getting no response, she studied the mounds of sand in trepidation

    21. The only impression, other than kids and lovers, was predictably enough the food, huge, heaping mounds of it, big gobbly piles of it, eighty and hundred-metre tables of it, with ice sculptures and creamy pale linen


    22. There are rows of tables with mounds of black on them


    23. began to understand the mounds of newspapers in his midst


    24. The girl’s flat chest grew soft mounds


    25. We then covered them with bark and buried them under mounds of earth


    26. The land was quite flat here, and once the road left the woods and entered the cleared fields south of the city, I could see the many mounds in the distance and the largest one looming over all the others


    27. Around the periphery of the stockade, there were several smaller mounds, most with yurts, but a few were conical with no room for houses


    28. Around the mounds on the periphery were many more yurts on the ground level


    29. This was still Hotcangara country and often the woods would give way to large cleared areas already planted with centli in the mounds they favored in the north with the squash and bean plants planted on the sides of the mounds


    30. time clambering over the unending mounds of junk under

    31. mounds of rubble that grew from the roadside


    32. between the overturned cars and mounds of neglected


    33. scrambling across the mounds of debris as a shortcut through the


    34. They came at last to the mounds of grainy soil of the construction


    35. There were many mounds covered with dirt and vegetation


    36. mounds to easily enter through the top of the walls


    37. They grew their staple, cazabi (yucca), in mounds, about knee high and perhaps twice as wide, that were called conuco


    38. They would also plant some other things in the mounds like boniata (sweet yucca), a similar plant, and batatas (sweet potatoes) or camohtli as we called them in Nahual


    39. conuco—(Taino)—field of mounds on which the Taino cultivated manioc


    40. Thousands of dirt mounds had been erected

    41. Her eyes glisten as she counts up the mounds of rubies and opals, baskets of emeralds and diamonds that shall never sparkle in the sun, sated in the ravenous grasp of her wealth


    42. Drop peanut butter batter in small mounds over chocolate batter in pan


    43. marital bed--the heart-shaped locket nestled between the pristine ivory mounds of her


    44. Mountains”, a breadth-taking formation of about one thousand oval mounds of limestone spread throughout that island


    45. radar or something that Lisa could see which mounds were snow


    46. huge mounds of snow this way, then that


    47. ” The gargoyle said as he pointed, and caused one of the canvas mounds to glow blue by means of a spelled ring he wore


    48. The mounds of her breasts rose and fell in the regular pattern of sleep


    49. Torpedoes!” Wild-eyed with fear, he threw three torpedoes, mounds covered with red paper and filled with gunpowder, on the table


    50. He tossed them aside and began shuffling through mounds of










































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    Synonyms for "mound"

    mound pitcher hill pitcher's mound agglomerate cumulation cumulus heap pile hammock hillock hummock knoll speed bump protrusion knob projection prominence

    "mound" definitions

    (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands


    a small natural hill


    a collection of objects laid on top of each other


    structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones


    the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit


    form into a rounded elevation