It was a conical heap of rounded boulders perhaps forty feet high, green with moss and totally devoid of trees or brush.

Three times he dug, hacked, and brought that ancient wood, until he had a pile of pieces which, with care, he built into a conical heap.

A conical ragged heap of old mats cumbered a distant corner almost to the ceiling, and that was all.

Photos from the end of the 19th century show a conical heap of bricks next to the Arch of Constantine.

Nearby on another ridge, he had built a cairn, a conical heap of stones built as a monument or landmark.

Silicate ore stood in impressively tall conical heaps.

Where flame had engulfed Bowan the Black, there stood a neat conical heap of ash with black bones protruding.

It was a large conical heap in the middle of the floor.

Behind the Constable, men were moving to and fro, piling branches on top of a conical heap already twice their height.

One of these islands contains a small and rather drab, unimpressive-looking conical heap of rubble, with a deep crater at its centre.