Mound

(noun.) structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones; 'they built small mounds to hide behind'.

(noun.) (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands.

(verb.) form into a rounded elevation; 'mound earth'.

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• If she rose a trimmed, artificial mound, without inequality, what vantage would she offer the foot? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• There is a high rocky mound, called El Penon, on the right of the road, springing up from the low flat ground dividing the lakes. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The small mound I have mentioned a while ago was once occupied by the Phenician city of Laish. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• This is his own Mound,' whispered Wegg, as he recovered his wind, 'this one. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• From the top of the crosses rise imperial arches, closing under a mound and cross. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Of these 4,800 were in Kentucky and Illinois, 7,000 in Memphis, 19,200 from Mound City south, and 17,500 at Corinth. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The body is brought and the pyre fired, and then for ten days the warriors built a mighty mound to be seen afar by the traveller on sea or land. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Till the Mounds is down and this business completed, you're accountable for all the property, recollect. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Could you be got to do so, till the Mounds are gone? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I can price the Mounds to a fraction, and I know how they can be best disposed of; and likewise that they take no harm by standing where they do. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Using this cover, they were linking the individual mounds up with stones and dirt. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Not them Mounds without,' said Mr Wegg, extending his right hand with an air of solemn reasoning, 'encouragement? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Because it would be unknowingly sold with the mounds else, and the buyer would get what he was never meant to have, and never bought. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was a cloudy night, and the black shadow of the Mounds made the dark yard darker. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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