In many places the mounds topped her head.

The wind blows strong in Normandy, he explained, and to protect the crops Norman farmers had built hedgerows, mounds of dirt topped with thick bristly bush often six feet high.

Classic and always a sure bet here, a mound of chopped clams topped a tangle of linguine in sheer buttery sauce, and colorful fusilli alla campagnola brought that corkscrew pasta tossed with chopped tomatoes, mushrooms and peas.

Then his hand was cupped over a yielding mound of bare flesh; a mound topped by a firmer summit.

In places there were ruined works of stone beside the path, and mounds of green topped with slender birches, or fir-trees sighing in the wind.

He accepted a mound of mashed potatoes on a plate topped with a warm brown gruel and ate only a quarter of it.

In the antipasti, juicy, peppery grilled portobello mushroom slices surrounded a mound of mesclun topped with warmed goat cheese.