The front room was a jungle of disheveled textbooks and papers piled on every available flat surface including the floor.

The meetings went on and on, the paper piled higher and higher.

So she sat back down in her chair and reached for the papers she'd so neatly piled together.

He led them back through the small house, passing two rooms, both with books and papers piled high on every surface.

But as the papers and errands piled up he fell behind in his work.

Sitting at a high desk, papers piled in front of him.

He sat behind his large cluttered desk, papers piled to his head.

With a sigh, the halfling began studying the papers piled on the floor.

For a moment he felt tired, reluctant to attack the papers piled on his desk.

The unions say the circulation numbers are sharply inflated, with many papers piled into garbage bins or delivered to people who do not want them.