Franz Merlicek, who runs a large advertising firm in Vienna, arranged piles of arugula, picked from his garden.

Artfully arranged piles of softly rounded stones from the couple's Block Island vacation home nest in corners.

Bill Cooke, NASA scientist, is regularly shooting marbles into carefully arranged piles of soil.

He was at his desk, neatly arranging piles of paperwork, when the call came.

Worshippers arrange tidy piles of roast pork, chicken and oranges as offerings to the deities.

Nevia No, who owns Yuno's Farm with her husband, arranges piles of purple eggplants and orange peppers in color-coordinated style; she may be the only farmer to set out her goods on white tablecloths.

Corrigan went through to his own office and set the briefcase down on one corner of the broad sweep of curved, walnut-topped desk with its terminal, onyx pen-holders and neatly arranged piles of papers and reminders.

He arranges large piles of parts by type, and she grazes through them, trailed by several assistants.

Ahroe found Stel in the front room, arranging small piles of things to take along.

They joined Katya in sifting through the objects, arranging piles, recognizing and weeping over mementos, sitting on the beds remembering many talks.