Glasses - those tough cafeteria glasses with the ripply sides - were stacked in neat pyramids on rear shelves, along with a wide selection of even tougher cafeteria crockery.

There was no sign of life around the hut nor between the neat pyramids of canvas, except for a single black crow which sat on the peak of one of them.

Vegetable sellers sit quietly on the edge of roadways, their onions and tomatoes and potatoes piled in neat pyramids on pieces of burlap.

The drawings in the books showed cross sections in which neat pyramids of soil stood next to equally neat inverted pyramids cut into the ground.

The gasoline cans had been arranged in a neat, shiny pyramid.

There was a display of Sunprufe paint about three feet from us, the cans stacked in a neat pyramid.

But mock-ups of the completed tower show a pinnacle characterized by a fragmented crown of glassy splinters, not a neat pyramid.

Open it at the appropriate place in the section on solid geometry, and some neat little three-dimensional pyramids jump up from the page.

He could recall once when he and two friends had piled snowballs until they had a dozen neat pyramids completed, each as high as their shoulders, in preparation for an impossibly huge battle.

Most people think the Maya were just a bunch of jungle-dwelling savages that built some neat pyramids.