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And I thought, ‘Well, we have all these social problems backed up. Why can’t we begin to put all these people we’re putting on the scrap heap together with these problems?’

Both kids were curled in a messy heap together, snoring soundly, black hair mingling with brown, arms in a tangle, mouths open.

Instead, he called him into his office and told him, "We're joined at the hip. Either we're going to the mountaintop together or we're going to the trash heap together."

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In a funny early scene, the couple gets excited about taking the baby out to a club — they’re not boring old parents! they can still party! — but the exhaustive effort of gathering the diaper bag, supplies, stroller, baby equipment, etc. leaves them collapsed in a heap together, too tired to go out.

It blew at first from the south-south-east and then veered round to the south-west, and the effect of this concurrence of winds was to heap together the waters of the Channel between Bolt Head and Lizard Point, and drive them, with terrific force, into the narrow inlet of Plymouth Sound.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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