She said thank you and got right into the huge pile of other things from people who hadn't come to her party.

He had to stuff it into a pile of others.

Now books fall into piles where they may, and if he has to walk around them, so be it.

But, later that night things began to sort themselves out into little piles.

"So he was looking to come into a nice pile."

Jack went back into the pile, looking for that one piece of hard information.

She just swept everything into a pile and made room for herself.

He slid the record back into the pile and went on to the next.

Who do these people think they are, putting their fingers into a pile of stuff like this?

He reached into the pile again and pulled out more papers.