In an eBay minute, I was staring down in disbelief at a twisted pile of broken glass and shattered wood.

Both had seen the twisted pile of mutilated bodies that almost filled the well.

Grimacing, he looked at the twisted pile of paper clips.

From the glare of the roaring flames I could see dead and wounded Vietnamese lying in twisted piles.

But not just this second, he thought, kneeling beside Jennifer's lifeless body, which still lay pinned beneath a twisted pile of wreckage.

Scattered across the floor were piles of hideously mutated corpses, bloated and twisted but immediately recognisable as having once been human.

She was flat on her back, in a kind of crumpled, twisted pile of melting snow and heavy cloak.

Parts of both towns were transformed today into twisted piles of collapsed homes, broken glass, fallen trees and dangling telephone wires.

The two 100-yard-long granaries were hit by a tornado spawned by Gilbert around midnight and reduced to a twisted pile of rubble.

Other unidentified bodies lay in twisted piles waiting to be buried.