‘The importance of this conclusion to Brook was that it seemed to supply evidence that there had been a mound and cross above the arches of the crown before the present ones, which he felt sure were of French workmanship and dated from the 1540 reconstruction of the crown.’

‘The diamond mound is topped by a diamond ‘cross pattee’ with a sapphire in the center of the cross.’

‘a mound of dirty crockery’

‘Search teams, who had shovels and a few bulldozers, were joined by survivors using their bare hands to tear at the mounds of rubble in the hope of finding anyone alive beneath the ruins.’

‘the dead were cremated, and then buried at the centre of a great mound’

‘These bikes uproot heather and, if they run over Iron Age ancient burial mounds, the damage would be irreversible.’

‘the bushes were little more than vague mounds beneath the snow’

‘The garden seemed to be doing fine, except for a foot-high mound of chewed-up dirt on the grass near the edge of the garden.’

‘The batter hits a ball toward the mound that the pitcher deflects toward the second baseman.’

‘Here’s a rundown of some of the most glaring failures at bat, in the field, or on the mound in a single World Series.’

‘he built his castle high upon the mound’

‘We got out there in a boat and discovered that the fish were congregating in an area which had a large underwater feature, a rocky mound rising up some eight feet above an otherwise featureless lake bed.’

‘a sand-built ridge Of heaped hills that mound the sea’

‘basmati rice was mounded on our plates’

‘A white-jacketed waiter brought plates mounded with chicken and rice cooked over a fire.’