Slowly, undramatically, as it moved through the screen, the titanic construction was crumbling down to a mountainous pile of rubble.

On the south bank was a vast encampment, lines of white canvas tents and mountainous piles of military stores.

He vanished beyond the mountainous piles of merchandise.

Hidden in the forests were mountainous piles of ammunition.

The menu even included a mountainous, mouth-watering pile of soya bean-burgers fresh from a giant microwave.

He was on his feet in an instant, racing through the dark aisles between mountainous piles of junk.

Charles, wrestling with mountainous piles of bills, was much inclined to think that she was right.

The explorer can climb the mountainous pile of collapsed rocks to a point well above the stream.

We took shelter under a mountainous pile of driftwood to wait out the storm.

Any movement on his part would disturb the mountainous pile of gold, silver and gems on which he rested.