pila-1
heap ; wadge ; pile ; stash ; slew.
The raw material of white paper was undyed linen - or in very early days hempen - rags, which the paper-maker bought in bulk, sorted and washed, and then put by in a damp heap for four or five days to rot.
By meeting authors cold print takes on a human voice; wadges of paper covered with words turn into treasure troves full of interest.
However, it would be a time consuming task for the student or researcher to sit down with piles of periodicals, frantically scanning contents lists to try to trace articles on his chosen topic.
It tells the story of a young detective who stumbles across a stash of jewel thieves hiding out in an abandoned house.
His work includes 47 novels, and slews of essays, plays, reviews, poems, histories, and public speeches.
escribir una pila de
write + reams (and reams)
Over the years, she wrote reams and reams of stories, but never really did anything with them, and eventually these were lost in one way or another.
una pila de
a pile of
a stack of
a sackful of
a whole slew of
a raft of
a mass of
a bucketful of
a bucketload of
reams of
a bashful of
All the librarian has is a pile of useless junk which people have given to the library instead of throwing out.
They found him in his habitually cluttered office, buried beneath stacks of paperwork.
This release introduces more new features and includes another sackful of bug fixes.
Maybe a whole slew of democrats knew about it and kept it under wraps until it was politically expedient to release it to the media.
We've had a raft of excuses and not one apology.
Flaws are emphasized and frequent comparisons made with similar tools, but these are often buried in a mass of minutiae.
That was what that drill corporal himself thought, for he got really angry with those persons who had thrown the bucketful of water over me.
If reports are to be believed, the Moon may have bucketloads of water.
400 pages of interrogations, once closely guarded as secrets of war, were discovered along with reams of other classified documents by a reporter.
I mentioned this on some other forum and got a bashful of comments.
