There were a couple of nice songs...and one monumental pile of refuse.

Bones still lay heaped in monumental piles round the castle hill.

Before me spread 2,000 acres of carefully composed landscape - stout chestnuts and graceful sycamores, billiard-table lawns, an ornamental lake bisected by an imposing bridge, and in the centre of it all the monumental baroque pile of Blenheim Palace.

This monumental pile was Wentworth Hall, in which the Tellurian candidates for the Lens of the Galactic Patrol live and move and have their being.

At the top of the hill there was an imposing limestone building that appeared to take up an entire block, the sort of monumental pile you see in the District of Columbia.

On some of the more monumental piles of stone, he had bestowed names, the Three Harlequins being one.

Jack Pertwee sat on the smart checked tweed sofa holding the hand of a girl with a monumental pile of black hair and eyelashes like shoe brushes.

Never on a question as vital as criminality in the White House has a public servant left behind such a monumental pile of unfinished business.