• Sometimes the walkers found themselves caught up in long lines of refugees, footsore like them, trudging alongside ox-carts and bicycles piled high with mattresses and pans and live chickens.

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  • The family, despite their grief, eventually decided it was time to go through the old man's stuff, which was piled high in a second-floor bedroom that was always kept locked.

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  • Olly Barkley struck back after Ryan Lamb's high kick and Morgan's follow-up piled on the pressure and forced the Blues into giving away a penalty.

    BBC: Blues 37-24 Gloucester

  • The massive lot at the beach-side Jacob Riis Park was piled high with storm detritus.

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  • The lobster rolls and clam rolls, made with nostalgia-tinged Sunbeam bread, are piled high with fish.

    NEWYORKER: Littleneck

  • Antique ornaments and fragrant boughs of Austrian spruce decorated hundred-year-old wall sconces above tables whose diners, young and (very) old, gleefully attacked carb-rich Viennese pastries and coffees piled high mit Schlag.

    FORBES: Travel

  • If bodybuilders were the ascetics of the festival, the strongmen were its mead-swigging friars, lumbering by with plates piled high.

    NEWYORKER: The Strongest Man in the World

  • The bright yellow and green Ta Bom ( www.tabomtruck.com) serves Brazilian specialties like pasteles (crisp pastries) of ground beef, cheese or banana, and the Hamburgao, a burger piled high with scrambled eggs, bacon, French-fried potato sticks, corn and more.

    BBC: The LA food truck revival

  • Inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported this week that a recent visit to Wright County Egg, one of the Iowan firms responsible for the recall, found rats, maggots and manure piled several metres high at or near the egg-producing facilities.

    ECONOMIST: Unsafe eggs are the latest food scare

  • With chickpeas, mushrooms, and tabouli piled high to the heavens, I sat at a street-facing window that invited people-watching.

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  • In the mid-1990s, investors piled into Asian investments because recent returns there had been high and, more importantly, uncorrelated with other markets.

    ECONOMIST: Too clever by half

  • "A lock is easy to break, " said Pedro Cedraschi, a 58-year-old Argentine, as he pushed a cart in the Miami airport piled high with three gleaming emerald bags.

    WSJ: To Meet the Biggest Wrap Stars, Stroll Through the Miami Airport

  • My then preschool-aged daughter liked the sound of this mysterious destination, which apparently was piled high with candy, and declared to the rest of my clan that Steve Jobs was, in fact, her imaginary friend.

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  • For China's fast-diminishing population of poor people, bikes remain an important beast of burden, piled high with recycled junk.

    ECONOMIST: Pedalling prosperity

  • An altar is erected and piled high with offerings to the invisible visitors: flowers, ribbons, coloured candles, tamales (steam-cooked cornmeal dough), fruit and corn.

    BBC: Mexico's Day of the Dead

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