Bartta was piling dried fruit and crusty bread onto a plate.

Ah, to see the busy mothers with their radiant little children in tow, piling fruit into their grocery baskets, to watch the big noisy delivery trucks park in the slushy streets as powerfully built men lugged great cartons and cases of merchandise through back doors!

I quickly sussed out which sellers just piled good fruit on top of bad, which dealers would attempt to hide a bruised apple and which suppliers would always try to short-measure you.

Wellington always had a large appetite; he'd piled fruit simultaneously on to his plate with the meat and rice, instead of having it separately as a dessert.

They sat beneath the cool shade of a tree and, as songbirds flitted this way and that high above their heads, drank a heavy, sweet, fermented beverage while Bjork laid out plates piled high with smoked meats, aged cheeses, fresh fruit and shelled nuts.

"No pottery, no food bowls ..." "They sometimes pile seeds and fruit upon pads of flap lichen they strip from the rocks," Shorak explained.