With a whispered apology she fell in a tidy heap on to Mrs. Woods's bed room carpet.

Shelby lay in a slightly tidier heap on the other side of me, and I crawled towards her, panting.

Still, it was part of the day's detritus, to be swept into a tidy heap when he had time.

Genteel pools of startling transparency lie quietly amid small, measured, tidy heaps of yellow and orange soils.

Two hours later there was a tidy heap of brown bones and rusted steel moldering away in a new hiding place, and a tidy sum in gold plate occupying the former burial site.

He bumbled around for a bit, trying to coil up the string and push the wood into tidy heaps.

He undressed with the same care he devoted to every other task in his life, leaving his clothes in a tidy heap on the toilet lid.

She was going round the room, bundling the dressing towels and sheets into a tidy heap.

She muttered a cleaning cantrip that gathered all the papers together in a tidy heap on the side of the stage.

As she replaced each one, she sorted them automatically into tidy little heaps.