But inevitably, legal research means digging through mounds of paper and making careful notes.

There were only a few pieces of wet metal to push aside through mounds of dark brown humus to reach the door.

Gone are the lengthy searches through mounds of paper transcripts or hours of unedited videotape.

In between, I worked through mounds of political correspondence and diplomatic papers.

Show him fighting through triple-teams and mounds of muscle in the lane.

Digging trenches through old mounds, picking up bits of pottery, publishing scholarly reports?

Soon, they were sifting through mounds of dirt, separating out any pieces of wood or stone.

He said his investigators had conducted hundreds of interviews and sifted through mounds of evidence.

They waded on through mounds of sleeping serpents, noticing that the next passage rose sharply.

Stalking political game is his trade, and he plows through mounds of statistics to pick apart every aspect of Giuliani's career.