The day passed; no move was made save surreptitiously to pile the wood, straw, tinder and brush in front of the lines.

The raiders piled straw against the wood and burnt them all alive.

She spent a few minutes poking through the blankets and piled straw where he must have made his bed, long since torn apart by others searching for clues.

When I had finished we covered Monty with a horse rug and piled straw on top of that, leaving only his head sticking out.

Inside the citadel, Võ Tánh ordered his men to pile straw around a wooden tower and fill it with gunpowder.

They went in and the Arab spoke with one of the guardians, who cleared the occupants from a stall at one side and piled fresh straw in its corner for Port to lie down on.

From the middle of the crowd was rising now smoke and it was here eight more of the band naked, tied round a tree and they were burning from the bottom where was piled straw and stick-bundles and logs, all taken from our firewood what we collected every day.

They piled straw and fem for a bed, and she curled up by the entrance.

"I like the winter up here," said Ria, helping them pile straw warmly in the stables.